Hybrid USB/FTP Build

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  • May 1, 2007 at 2:09 am #413
    Schnark
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    Hi All,

    I’ve got my V90 now all working (woot!) and imaging fine, but i’ve got a few challenges:

    – Imaging the V90 via the onboard LAN works fine via WSI as well as rapport as well (i’m guessing – haven’t yet tried)
    – Imaging the V90 via USB takes around an hour
    – We’ve got PCMCIA Fibre cards installed which unfortunately don’t support PXE boot and i’d ideally like to image the devices via these, but the lack of PXE support creates a challenge.

    So here’s my thoughts (and i’d appreciate yours!):
    – Create a USB key with either the Win98 boot environment or the WinPE environment
    – Initial the command to pull the image from the FTP/TFTP server (dl?)
    – Let the imaging occur
    – Come back 10 minutes later

    What’s your thoughts people?

    May 1, 2007 at 2:24 am #9537
    thinkthin
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    Hmm, interesting though…

    Maybe it could work but you still need to touch the machine. What about a simple ghost boot disk? Ghost Partion 2 only off the unit and ghost it back on – you will not capture the BIOS settings is the only draw back.

    It would be fast!

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