Good old sysprep + ghost works best for our setup. We've got way more computers than that, and of many makes too (we buy in large qtys, but over the years you accumulate lots of different ones). With that it would be possible to clone the computer before the graphical install starts and have ghost push out the images to the computers and continue the install. Only problem with that would be telling windows where the new install source is. For example, adding a copy of the I386 directory to the $OEM$ folder so that it copies it over to the HD then setup would continue the installation from the I386 directory in the HD rather than the CD/DVD disk. With that said, is there any way of cloning the setup environment using ghost after the initial copying of files to the HD? I know that setup uses the CD/DVD during its final stretch, but is there a way to make the setup install from a source within the HD. RIS was also a consideration, but I've been getting some errors due to a missing file, during the text mode setup portion, but that's another post. I need to set up 1000+ computers of different makes, and would like to take advantage of the unattended install, only problem is that I'm not going to go walking around and waiting 40+ minutes at each workstation while it installs to move on to the next. I'm sorry beforehand for posting this question, which might sound somewhat bizarre to some of you.
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