DMcCoy Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 This is the last screen I get after choosing the PXE driver and finding the Ghost exe etc. Edit. Ah, I see you got to that bit :oops: Is RIS actually working?
mrforgetful Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Yes I get that, and enter a name in the top box. The bottom box gets filled in automatically with what I enter in the top box so I leave it as that. Then click next and you get a summary of the setup like with any other boot creation. When you click next again and it tries to make it I get the errors mention before.
DMcCoy Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Yes I get that, and enter a name in the top box. The bottom box gets filled in automatically with what I enter in the top box so I leave it as that. Then click next and you get a summary of the setup like with any other boot creation. When you click next again and it tries to make it I get the errors mention before. I tried it on mine, takes about two seconds and goes completed. You running this as the administrator? What the the permissions on the RIS folder. Also see if you can get a machine to boot from RIS anyway to check its installed and authorised.
Midget Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 RIS FTW! I am so very glad that I discovered it and learned how to use it. Gotta love free, instead of the carp that Ghost puts you through. tying the licence to the HDD is stupid, one of the main reasons for imaging it failed hard drive.
mrforgetful Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 RIS is working fine, I use it already but it's Ghost 7 which doesn't support SATA so I'm just trying to get Solution Suite 2.0 up and running so I don't have to mess with BIOS settings anymore on the clients. I shall check the permissions on the folders, though yes I am running it as Domain Administrator.
mrforgetful Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 RIS FTW! I am so very glad that I discovered it and learned how to use it. Gotta love free, instead of the carp that Ghost puts you through. tying the licence to the HDD is stupid, one of the main reasons for imaging it failed hard drive. I don't use the Ghost console, I just use the Ghostcast Server stuff and RIS to get to it instead of a floppy 1) for speed and 2) some floppy drives are broken and we won't replace them now.
mrforgetful Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Ok, the permissions on the RemoteInstall folder (and everything within inheritsthese) are: Sharing: Everyone, Full Control Security: Administrators and SYSTEM, Full Control. Authenticated Users, Read+Execute/Read/List Folder Contents
projector1 Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 always used ghost 7.5 on our circ server got past the SATA issue by using the -fni switch quick question about RIS, how does it differ to ghost, do they do the same thing? My main concern is with the admin machines i setup xp with sp2 office 2003 pro sims.net active studio plus others I use ghost to basically clone the machine and then if any machine (same build)goes down i deploy the stored image to it via the console. I would like to know how to use RIS for eductional purposes, but never had the time! no suprises there!
mrforgetful Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 always used ghost 7.5 on our circ server got past the SATA issue by using the -fni switch quick question about RIS, how does it differ to ghost, do they do the same thing? My main concern is with the admin machines i setup xp with sp2 office 2003 pro sims.net active studio plus others I use ghost to basically clone the machine and then if any machine (same build)goes down i deploy the stored image to it via the console. I would like to know how to use RIS for eductional purposes, but never had the time! no suprises there! Ghost is quicker. RIS is more cutomizable. With RIS it will install Windows and then when the computer boots any msi's that apply to it's OU will be installed. As opposed to Ghost where you just load a preconfigured setup. I don't know what Zenworks is, but if it's not free I'm not interested at the minute.
Uraken Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Can i ask a daft question ? great can ris deliver images that are prebuilt with apps on like office2003 etc and must i always do a sysprep, (i have always used ghost and just change the machine name and run the sid changer locally)
CyberNerd Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 G4L maybe an option, free works same as ghost. Used it here to image windows servers and laptop with no problem. bit for bit image so probably slower than ghost. Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost©. The created images are optionally compressed and transferred to an FTP server instead of cloning locally.
Midget Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 yes you can using RIPrep. I'm doing that exact thing atm and it works
contink Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 I was using ghost to handle all this but now, thanks to this forum, I've started using RIS and I cannot understate what a welcome change it was.. It's mean't upgrading a few NIC's to PXE compatible but well worth the time, trouble and stress
CyberNerd Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 cybernerd, midget was that for me? Just mentioning the freebees, it didn't make it to the poll but we saved a lot of money and have functionality of ghost
uaegurl Posted May 26, 2007 Posted May 26, 2007 From where you bring or creat ghost.dsk and ghost.ldr
Panda Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 When I go through the Ghost RIS installer the following happens, am I missing something? Start Ghost Boot Wizard Choose Microsoft RIS Boot Image option Choose Universal Packet Driver v2.0 Click Next on all following screens until prompted to enter RIS Menu Details Click Next and review choices Click Next and I receive the following error: Could not format the floppy disk. Check the drive then try again. Click Ok and receive the next error as follows: An error occurred when trying to create the boot package. Those two errors will repeat until I cancel the setup.Hi, I have the some prob, Have you found the solutions. thx
dave.81 Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 I'm gonna be the odd one out and say none:P
DMcCoy Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 When I go through the Ghost RIS installer the following happens, am I missing something? Start Ghost Boot Wizard Choose Microsoft RIS Boot Image option Choose Universal Packet Driver v2.0 Click Next on all following screens until prompted to enter RIS Menu Details Click Next and review choices Click Next and I receive the following error: Could not format the floppy disk. Check the drive then try again. Click Ok and receive the next error as follows: An error occurred when trying to create the boot package. Those two errors will repeat until I cancel the setup.Hi, I have the some prob, Have you found the solutions. thx You need to update to Solution Suite 2.0.1 with live update, the RIS option is broken in 2.0
Oops_my_bad Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 No doubt the CC3 fanboys will be along shortly complaining that there's no option for RM
baxter Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 Been using Ghost 7.5 for years but are slowly switching to Acronis Snap Deploy, and we've been pretty pleased with it so far..
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