A Norton Ghost Question

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
I'm sitting here staring at 30 PCs.

They need a program called Emco lathe, which only runs in DOS. Therefore, I need to create a new partition via partition, install dos, and install emco on every computer. Then I need to edit the Windows bootloader to allow DOS as an option on boot. It takes me about 20 minutes to do that on one computer.

30 x 20 minutes. For the love of god :(

Is there a way I can get Norton Ghost to image <i>just</i> that partition to the other 29 computers without screwing up the existing windows 2000 partitions on them?

Comments

  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    sounds like a job for partition magic.
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited April 2004
    Thrax,


    This may give some clues

    http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_network.htm
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Well using neither partition magic or ghost, I had an idea.

    I loaded the dos-only program up on to our server, and made a specific shortcut with a program called DOSBox (<b>The</b> supreme DOS emulator) to load EMCO Lathe program. Then I just placed this shortcut in the roaming profile so everyone would have it, and made sure the shortcut on their desktop pointed back to the server.

    Bastardized? Sure. Our server is powerful enough to run it.

    Half-assed administration at its finest!
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    Half-assed administration at its finest!

    Im so proud :D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Why thank you my good man! :D
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