[indy_dba]

Got tired of sitting on the sidelines and decided to join up...

In the last couple weeks I have setup Server2003+SP1 with RIS service so I can PXE boot BartPE from servers that I am building custom versions of Windows on and then capture the image with Ghost all from outside the Windows environment, too cool! I have used many posts on this forum to help out and just wanted to return the love (well when I can).

My RIS install has all .OSC screens fully automated, and the BartPE build has a totally automated network startup, so just turning on a server pressing F12 and less than a minute later (I have a gigabit network) and I am at a custom .CMD menu prompt that runs from a network server!

This custom menu allows me to install Windows, perform disk partitioning and formatting of RAW (bare) drives, perform McAfee A/V checks, run Ghost with custom switches, or fully automated Ghost scripted command files!

The best part is no more press F6 to load mass storage drivers and no more slow speeds from Ghost because the BartPE environment supports native Network and Storage drivers so my Ghost is running at 1300+MB per minute (that's right 1.3+GigaBytes per minute)!!!

One day I may try to use WinPE as well, but I am extremely happy with BartPE over RIS from PXE boot right now!