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If I had the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 set up at home then that would be reasonably straightforward but I don&#8217;t, and the old drive imaging technologies will be fine for this &#8211; at least that&#8217;s what I thought until I spent half the night and a good chunk of this morning fighting with Symantec Ghost&#8230;  So, here&#8217;s a few of the things that I&#8217;ve (re-)discovered about Ghost in the last few hours.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using Ghost in peer-to-peer mode does require the slave and the master machines to be running the same version of Ghost &#8211; it will present a version mismatch if you try and run different versions.<\/li>\n<li>Ghost 6.x Enterprise has a multicast option but I couldn&#8217;t get it to work (it was always greyed out for me).  <a href=\"http:\/\/service1.symantec.com\/SUPPORT\/on-technology.nsf\/docid\/1998080413200425\">Symantec&#8217;s knowledge base suggests that this may be down to TCP\/IP issues<\/a> and I&#8217;m pretty sure that packet-level network drivers are required with the MS-DOS client (the Windows server can use the normal Windows network settings) but, even with a suitable packet driver loaded, I gave up after a few hours without success.<\/li>\n<li>GhostCast Server uses (UDP) port 6666 for communications.<\/li>\n<li>GhostCast Server 8.x will create a Windows Firewall exception for itself but the exception still needs to be enabled manually.<\/li>\n<li>On a multi-homed server, there seems to be no way to select the NIC on which the GhostCast Server presents a session.<\/li>\n<li>Multicasting also seems to need the client and server versions to match one another.  16-bit Ghost 7.x <em>should<\/em> work with an 8.x server but it wasn&#8217;t working out for me with 7.5 and 8.2 (32-bit 8.x clients were connecting to the server fine, so I knew it was working, but I didn&#8217;t want to image those machines &#8211; and I didn&#8217;t have a copy of the 7.x server).<\/li>\n<li>Compression adds <em>a lot<\/em> of time to the imaging process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eventually, I got everything working with a 16-bit copy of Ghost 8.2 running on MS-DOS (to be completely accurate, it was a Windows ME startup disk created from Windows XP) communicating with a GhostCast Server 8.2 running on Windows Server 2008.<\/p>\n<p>And for anyone who is wondering why I was messing about with 16-bit executables and MS-DOS (in these days of Windows PE), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/\">Toffa<\/a> suggested that I should try a Windows PE disk with the 32-bit ghost client.  Although that would have let me access USB-attached external storage, I didn&#8217;t have enough space on a USB drive and was storing my image on a server.  Windows XP (and so PE) doesn&#8217;t natively recognise the network card on the machine I was imaging, so that would have required me to extend the Windows PE image and provide additional driver support.  Somehow, using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netbootdisk.com\/\">universal network boot disk<\/a> seemed like the easy option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to rebuild one of my PCs before lending it to someone for a few days but before I do that I want to take an image of it. 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