Cloning

[JohnnyR1Red]

I have an issue with some new Toshiba laptops we have just bought for our school, I have to clone 40 of them and I would normally use WDS on our 2008 R2 server but it does not recognise the NIC. We can usually get around this by taking out the hard disk and putting it onto an older PC but in this instance the Toshiba is a sealed unit.

 

I stopped using Ghost a few years ago as it started to blue screen on a lot of newer kit. I have downloaded a trial of Ghost and it has worked but I'm unsure of the license situation, surely I don't need a license for each laptop?

 

Any help or advice would be appreciated, an option is to build a 2012 server which I would if I knew it would solve the problem.

[chilbs]

you need to inject the network driver into the boot image and make the network driver available in the drivers list on wds.

[free780]

2012 r2 wds and MDT. When you add the drivers for your new laptop model. MDT will add the nic drivers to your boot image. Just use wds for pxe boot and maybe multicast if you are feeling brave.

[jmak]

I stopped using Ghost a few years ago as it started to blue screen on a lot of newer kit. I have downloaded a trial of Ghost and it has worked but I'm unsure of the license situation, surely I don't need a license for each laptop

 

IFAIK you need a client licence for each machine - made it prohibitively expensive when I looked.

[JohnnyR1Red]

you need to inject the network driver into the boot image and make the network driver available in the drivers list on wds.

 

I have tried this in the past...unsuccessfully

[JohnnyR1Red]

2012 r2 wds and MDT. When you add the drivers for your new laptop model. MDT will add the nic drivers to your boot image. Just use wds for pxe boot and maybe multicast if you are feeling brave.

 

Will build a server tomorrow and give it a go, thanks