Disk Imaging using Ghost or similar questions?

[chrigil]

If I use something like Norton Ghost to image my drive immediately after installing the OS, do the system configurations of the computers that the Image is used on need to be the same? Presumably if one computer is a laptop but the Image was taken from a PC with obviously different hardware, wouldn't there be driver conflicts?

Also can anyone give me a quick run down as to what the entire process involves? Do I need a spare HDD to hold the Image or would I burn it to DVD. Presumably if I could do the latter then wouldn't the Partition holding the OS on the initial computer need to be less than 4.3Gb (i.e. the size of my DVD-R's)?

I don't really understand as you can probably see.



Thanks in advance,

Chris

 

[franklin97355]

The newer ghosts will allow you to compress the image and to span drives. for best results you should boot from a floppy and run ghost in dos. This has worked best for us but then we don't have the latest version which is supposed to be able to run from within windows.

 

[chrigil]

Can I only use the Image for computers of the same hardware spec or is there a way of doing an install, installing Office, Dreamweaver etc and then using this image for lots of different PC's with different hardware?



Thanks in advance,

Chris

 

[franklin97355]

Check the OS forums. There is a way to configure an install so when you copy it to a new machine it will find new hardware and configure. Sort of like windows when you install it.