Science Laptop Project.

Aidan, Jack and I were given the task to upload a master ghost image and succesfully image a number of Toshiba laptops for science.


The first problem me and Aidan encountered was when we tried to upload the master ghost image to the ghost server. The first switch we used was dead, didn't work at all. Second one we tried was so slow and took about 3 hours for us to upload the master image to the server. Now that I think about all that though I don't know why we just didn't directly link the server with the master laptop...

Once we got finally got the master image up we (Aidan, Jack and I) multicasted the image over to two laptops using the slow switch, this took about an hour and a half. Once they'd completed we attempted to change the SID IDs on the laptops so no network conflict would happen but these imaged laptops will no longer fully read the ghost disc which is needed to change the SID IDs. Even after formatting them with a Windows disc they still hang on reading the ghost disc which is really really strange.

Yesterday Roger brought in a new switch that was actually fast and we were able to ghost all the remaining laptops in one go, taking no longer than 20 minutes to image them all. After that was done all we had to do was change the SID IDs.

All in all it was good and pretty easy apart from the few minor setbacks.