GhostCast issues

[BenTruscott]

I have an image that need to be put on 25 ThinkPad R500's.

I have spent the day using Ghost without a hicup, imaging 100 pc with the one image and having no problems at all.

I come to re-image out notebooks, which are fully charged and in working condition, no faults at all. I start off with one trolley (15) 9 of which fail and 5 just stall.

Next i just try five, each in an individual session and the time out, and not in order, i.e. 3,5,1,2,4.

I am using the same network points that were used with success the daybefore to reimage desktops, everything else is working fine.

Please does anyone know of any ideas?

[danrhodes]

Are you using unicast, multicast or broadcast?

When launching Ghost try using the option /fni so Ghost.exe -fni this sometimes helps with older model kit.

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[sted]

-noide -noscsi -nolilo can also help

[tommccann]

ThinkPads are IBM i presume, in my experience IBMs dont image with ghost very well. They have there own software availible from IBM but its not cheap

[danrhodes]

ThinkPads are IBM i presume, in my experience IBMs dont image with ghost very well. They have there own software availible from IBM but its not cheap

Typical, IBM making it hard to use their hardware again!

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[jamesreedersmith]

Bit of a pain but seems to work 99.999999999999 (dont know how to get the little dot above it!) is to pull the hard drives out and ghost them disk to disk using a usb to ide/sata converter (fast per image but slower as can only do 1 at a time).

[TheLibrarian]

My experience would suggest looking at the NIC drivers first.

[danrhodes]

My experience would suggest looking at the NIC drivers first.

Yes get onto the IBM website and find the NDIS driver out for the inbuilt NIC for them laptops and make a custom driver package for using with ghost. I think this is the one you will need Lenovo Support & downloads - Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet Software for DOS - ThinkPad R500, R61, R61e, R61i

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[BenTruscott]

To sted and danrhodes: I have absolutely no idea what those commands mean, do i put this them in the command line server side?

plus i am just about to look into your option dan re the NDIS driver.

cheers for the help to those who posted. will let you know how it goes!!!

[mattx]

How to troubleshoot Ghost lockup problems

[sted]

are you using ghostcast server on the console to fire images out?

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ghostcast

[BenTruscott]

ok i think i get it now. Thanks everyone for their help.

[p858snake]

When they just stall is it when you boot into the disc then give it the session name to get? If it is, its your NIC drivers in most cases.