Network booting into Ghost

[jwood]

I wish to be able to network boot our clients and then connect to a ghost session to download an image.

Does anyone know of a simple and free bit of software that will allow us to do this? We're relatively new to network booting, but I assume some form of service needs to be running on a server which the clients will detect, boot from, then run a command accordingly.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to the simplest way of doing this?

[Chunky]

Is Ghostwalker still about?

[K.C.Leblanc]

Which version of ghost are you using. Our's (ghost 7) included 3Com boot services which does this.

[plexer]

If you don't have licences for ghost you can't use it ghost is not free but there are alternatives.

Ben

[jwood]

Which version of ghost are you using. Our's (ghost 7) included 3Com boot services which does this.

We're using Ghost 8. It does come with 3com boot services, but this doesn't seem to work for us. Possibly because of its age and the relatively new hardware we're trying to boot from it.

[K.C.Leblanc]

These might be worth a look.

TFTPD32 : a opensource TFTP server/service for windows : TFTP server

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/inde...showtopic=1961

Are you using server 2003 or 2008? At what stage is it falling over?

[sted]

These might be worth a look.

TFTPD32 : a opensource TFTP server/service for windows : TFTP server

Guides about TFTPD32 and PXE LAN booting

Are you using server 2003 or 2008? At what stage is it falling over?

or if youre on boot-land and have wds i created a wim image of vista/7 added ghost 32 to it and boot that of the network also gives other useful tools