I am new to Ghost and need some help. I have 20 Win 2000 Pro NTFS machines that I need wiped clean with new images. The machines are all the same in terms of hardware, with each machine containing a 20 gig HDD and a static IP address. I have taken 1 machine and set it up exactly right (OS, software, net protocols/settings, drivers, etc) have installed Ghost 7.2 Corporate Edition on that machine and have created a Ghost bootdisk.

The goal is to make an exact clone of my "image machine", store the new image on the "image machine", then install that image to the 19 other machines on the LAN. I believe this is possible, but am aware of Ghost problems going from NTFS to NTFS (the 19 other currently have NTFS Win2000 Pro installed that can be wiped). In other words, I need an exact clone of the "image machine" piped out to the 18 others on the LAN.

My question is, what would be the all around best way to do what I need to do? Do I need to install a slave drive into the "image machine" to store the image onto, or can I just store the image right on the "image machine" (gosh, I hope that made sense - unfamiliar with Ghost's compression ratio)

many thanks for any help!