[THIN] Re: Ghosting an FR3 MetaFame Server

  • From: "M" <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:24:15 -0000

This is a known ( and very annoying) issue with FR3.
You can install FR3 with an mst file or moduify registry entries.

http://ctxex10.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?externalID=CTX102844

http://ctxex10.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?entryID=3272

Regards

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Minero Hector B DLVA" <MineroHB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:32 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghosting an FR3 MetaFame Server


> No remapped drives and no Sysprep.
> All I did was ghost the server and place it back on the same server.
>
> I did move the Citrix folder from the All users profile, but that was
before
> I made the image.
> Everything was working fine before I restored the image.   This is weird!
>
> ________________________________
> Hector Minero
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter, Chris [mailto:christopher.walter@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 2:53 PM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghosting an FR3 MetaFame Server
>
>
> Are you using drive letter remapping?  Are you running sysprep afterwards?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Minero Hector B DLVA [mailto:MineroHB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 2:07 PM
> To: Thin (E-mail)
> Subject: [THIN] Ghosting an FR3 MetaFame Server
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've always been able to ghost FR2 servers without a problem.  I use the
> images as backups of my server.
> This morning I made a ghost image of an FR3 server (upgraded from FR2) and
> followed the same procedures I always do;
> however when I restore the images,  MetaFrame keeps asking for the
MetaFrame
> XP FR3 CD to install some features.  I suppose it thinks some features are
> missing.
> Now, I am not truing to clone the server, I am just putting the image back
> on the same server.
>
> Is there anything different between imaging an FR2 server and an FR3
server?
> What could've gone wrong?  Could it be that I upgraded the server from
FR2?
>
> TIA.
>
> Hector.
> ________________________________
> Hector Minero
> NSWCDD Code K55
> Ph: (540) 653-8859
> Fax: (540) 653-8575
>
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