can ghost do this or what is the best way to roll out images (iso)

[Migration User]

hi there,

i have an iso image which i want to roll out to different computers in the lab.

It's an unattended Windows Server 2012 R2 installation.

Is it possible to to take this iso image and deploy it over pxe to the network with ghost automatically?

Is it even possible, to roll out images of a system, where no ghost agent made a backup from before?

 

is ghost even the right product for this kind of situation?

 

 

 

 

[Edward Tippelt]

Ghost is geared up for image deployment and is perfectly capable of deploying images to remote machines.

It is not intended for deploying iso files as that will not create anything - an iso file is just an image of a CD or DVD which can be used to create another CD or DVD or can be mounted with free software to create a virtual optical drive.

Do you have any imaging experience?  The questions you are asking look like you have been given a task to do without any previous experience or training. It is certainly not a 5-minute job to build an automated deployment solution for operating systems - more like weeks or months.

[andykn101]

As well as rolling out Ghost images, GSS 3.0 can roll out Microsoft WIM images. As Ed has explained, an ISO file is a image of a CD, not an image of a working Operating System. However, to try in a lab, it's not too difficult to install GSS 3.0, create a Scripted Operating System Install Job using an extracted copy of your ISO and start with one of the sample Unattend XML files.

[Migration User]

thanks for the answers,

 

the scripted os install job feature is what i was looking for!

 

but apparently i ran into a problem when running the job, with my own unattended.xml or the sample ones from ghost.

When i run the job it says it is preparing the harddisk and quickly switches to error code 1 - error during script controlled os installation.

And then the System which was bootet over PXE, where i wanted to test it on, reboots.

What is the best way to debug this issue, which are the important logs for this kind of problem?

 

thanks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[andykn101]

The logs will probably be in the WinPE session on the X: drive. I have a script to copy them back to the server:

REM PAUSE Copy Windows Panther setup logs to DS

set dest=w:\temp\%ID%
set sw=/S /Q /Y /H /I
set dr=x:

echo %dr%

xcopy %dr%:\windows\panther\*.* "%dest%\panther" %sw%
xcopy %dr%:\windows\system32\sysprep\*.* "%dest%\sysprep" %sw%
xcopy %dr%:\windows\*.log "%dest%\windows" %sw%
pause