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Robert CarterWelcome to Radified forums.
Quote:We currently just load the image,
Well, what imaging program are you currently using? What's not working with that?
Quote:then load several diffferent freeware apps. )OPenoffice, Firefox, etc. I would like to create an image for each, load onto a external drive.
So, are you saying you want to add several different freeware apps to the current system(s), and then re-image them for distribution (deployment) to other systems? With Ghost, this usually involves creating the base system with OS and all added apps. Then you *SysPrep* that source base system--these makes the system ready to be deployed to other systems which probably will not have the exact same hardware as the source--when you boot the first time, the system will go through the needed *discovery* phase so the proper hardware and software drivers are set up for the new system. You image that base system and then deploy (restore) it to the various additional systems.
If you are going to make individual system images that are simply restored to the same machine the image came from--then any version of Ghost could probably work!
Quote:Then load ghost on the machine and load the image on the hard drive from the external drive.
You can create boot floppies, optical media--or if the systems support it, bootable external USB drives that will load Ghost and allow for deploying (restoring) the base image to whatever system you are booted to.
Quote:We loaded ghost images in school off the network. But ghost was running on the server.
That would be another alternative to what you are suggesting above.
Quote:We will be using both SATA and IDE hard drives. Will ghost do this and what version will I need?
Well, based on what you have said, I'd say you need the Corporate version of Ghost--Ghost Solution Suite v2.5 is the current version. It can do everything you want. *SysPrep* is Microsoft software--may actually be free--I'm not sure about that.
Quote:PS, how difficult will it be to setup.
If you are familiar with everything I have mentioned above--then fairly easy! If you are not sure what I'm talking about--then you have a steep learning curve to get to where you want to be!
To be legal, you would need a separate license for each machine, or a corporate site license to cover as many machines as you plan on using Ghost on!
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