[carterx]

Anyone try or figure out a way that you can take an already configured Windows Image from a PC and copy to a Boot Camp partition. We as a college already have a lot of custom images and would be nice to use the existing ones with updated drivers rather than having re-create each.

[ghporter]

Create image on PC, saving it to some media that you can move. Create partition on the Mac (use whatever you want, BC will work). Copy the image to the desired partition. Tell the Mac somehow that you now have two bootable partitions.

Norton Ghost, PowerQuest's Drive Image (which is old now since Symantec bought PQ to use their technology), and other applications will make images, and both offer a bootable utility that lets you copy your image to the desired partition.

[carterx]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Create image on PC, saving it to some media that you can move. Create partition on the Mac (use whatever you want, BC will work). Copy the image to the desired partition. Tell the Mac somehow that you now have two bootable partitions.

Norton Ghost, PowerQuest's Drive Image (which is old now since Symantec bought PQ to use their technology), and other applications will make images, and both offer a bootable utility that lets you copy your image to the desired partition.

I did try with a laptop. Pulled the HD out and put in an external case and started a computer up in ghost but would not see the USB/BootCamp partition. I'm guessing it just would not support a USB drive.

I will pull the HD out of an iMac tomorrow and place into a PC computer and see about installing an image on one partition and see if it will boot.

Tks.

[ghporter]

Ghost likes to only see stuff that was plugged in when the machine booted-it depends on BIOS to report all USB devices. Did you try with the drive plugged in BEFORE you booted the computer?

[carterx]

Ok, so got it working now.
More simple than I though.

Steps:

1. Pulled HD from PC that has the custom Windows image on it and place into external HD case and plug into Mac.
2. Use NetRestore Helper to create Master iamge.
3. By using Netrestore either from the OS itself or from a NetBoot session, just run netrestore and select the new Windows Master Image as the source and select the BootCamp partition as the Target and then run.
4. Once done, restart and let it run through it's check then rebooted and then sat at front screen.
5. Would not use the Apple keyboard/mice so used dell keyboard to login to then run the driver install for BootCamp from the Leopard disc then rebooted once drivers installed.

Seems to be working great. This is soo much easier than having to create new images rather than using existing ones we already have.

[carterx]

Now if I could NetBoot a BootCamp image as I have talked about here http://forums.macnn.com/104/alternat...al-boot-image/ would be great.

[Art Vandelay]

Do you have the network infrastructure necessary to be NetBooting? It takes a robust network to be able to withstand users running from a NetBooted OS. Do you NetBoot your Macs now?

[carterx]

Originally Posted by Art Vandelay 

Do you have the network infrastructure necessary to be NetBooting? It takes a robust network to be able to withstand users running from a NetBooted OS. Do you NetBoot your Macs now?

I'm at a new campus which we are still in our first year of the building which is supposed to have one of the newest and advanced network in the Atlantic provinces as we have all high-end Cisco gear all running fiber..... but again, not saying the top but one of the more advanced networks in the area.

We area going to test this in a lab next week with a class and watch the network usage from the server and switches to have a full report and idea of how much bandwidth it would take for one classroom.

[carterx]

Originally Posted by carterx 

Ok, so got it working now.
More simple than I though.

Steps:

1. Pulled HD from PC that has the custom Windows image on it and place into external HD case and plug into Mac.
2. Use NetRestore Helper to create Master iamge.
3. By using Netrestore either from the OS itself or from a NetBoot session, just run netrestore and select the new Windows Master Image as the source and select the BootCamp partition as the Target and then run.
4. Once done, restart and let it run through it's check then rebooted and then sat at front screen.
5. Would not use the Apple keyboard/mice so used dell keyboard to login to then run the driver install for BootCamp from the Leopard disc then rebooted once drivers installed.

Seems to be working great. This is soo much easier than having to create new images rather than using existing ones we already have.

Well..... now I have for a few days now tried to re do this and have not been able get this to work. Keep getting an error after I restart the computer after imaging the HD. Odd that it worked flawlessly the first time and n ow I can not get it to work.

Have done everything from changing the HD size, format of the drive, had Windows installed before hand from a CD install etc. and still have not been able to re do what I did back in February.

Anyone else get this done?