Studying for the 70-270, I have a few questions:

[Anarax]

1 - Review Recovery console, including how to access it if it is on a separate partition. (winnt32.exe /cmdcons), but from where? During the install?

2 – Does anyone ever use ICS??? When would you do it and why? After all, you need a router (or a host PC with more than one NIC), why not just use the router, set it up to hand out DHCP?

3 – Why is the hosts.sam and the lmhosts.sam file commented out? What role does it play in a workgroup vs a domain?

4 – GHOST – Can I make an image and burn it directly to a CD/DVD, or do I need to make an .iso?

5 – Mounted Drives – If you can only mount drives on empty folders, then either you need to decide to do this right after an install OR you have to move the contents out of the folder, assign the mounted drive and move the contents back…right?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

 

[Rick998]

I can only help with question 4 - 'GHOST – Can I make an image and burn it directly to a CD/DVD, or do I need to make an .iso?'.

The quick answer is 'Yes, you can create an image and burn it directly to a CD/DVD without having to make an ISO'.

A Ghost disk or partition image is just one or more files. The default file structure is that any disk or partition image file is created using a default file extension of .GHO. If the size of the disk/partition image is greater than 2Gb size then additional files are created with a default file extension of .GHS.

You can store these files on any media you want (CD, DVD, hard disk or partition, network drive). As a result, you don't have to create an ISO, you can just burn the files (created by Ghost) to CD/DVD.

However, to use the Ghost files for recovery you need to be able to boot from bootable media then to run the Ghost executable and either pass it the parameters of a disk/partition image or select a disk/partition image manually.

One problem these days may be that - since Ghost 7.5 - the Ghost executable no longer fits on a single bootable floppy disk... which means that System Recovery disk these days tend to be auto-booting CD/DVD's (i.e. avoiding the use of floppy disks altogether).

Hope this info helps...

 

[porkchopexpress]

ICS is more designed for a home or small office setup and is more focused on sharing a modem or other demand dial connection (DSL modem).

 

[porkchopexpress]

As for the hosts file all of the commented areas are instructing you on how to use the file, you can then add extra hosts and IP's in yourself.

They are usually used in workgroups these days or if you need a specific static mapping to a host on just one client, in a larger environment you would use DNS or WINS.

Hosts is for mapping host names to IP addreses and lmhosts is for mapping NETBios names to IP addreses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

 

[porkchopexpress]

Not quite sure what you mean with Q5, you can just create a folder on any NTFS partition and point it to another physical hard disk giving the impression that the folder has e.g. 50Gig available even though the current drive only had 1Gig left.