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Norton Ghost in 2002 was the last time I remember using on of the companies products. It was fantastic for mass imaging rooms at my school.
by jaimex2 5y ago
Norton Ghost in 2002 was the last time I remember using on of the companies products.
It was fantastic for mass imaging rooms at my school.
- earleybird 5y agoOh where does the time go :-) Back around 2003, I couldn't convince those that counted to spring the petty cash for Ghost; ended up building a custom Morphix[0] CD - well two actually. On boot up, one image would "dd | ftp <local ftp server>" to create an image to be used by the second which . . . splat the ftp disk image onto as many machines as there were copies of that cd. Improved the life of our PC techs measurably. If the techs needed to build more desktops they just burnt another cd. Was an all MS shop, but for this, I was granted an indulgence. [0] https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=morphix https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=morphix
- krylon 5y agoHeh, I remember one time our teacher was running late in trade school. When he finally arrived, he explained that on top of his teaching duties, he was also kind of the network admin, and had been chasing a network ... disturbance that turned out to be someone running Norton Ghost to clone a drive to a network adress... and then sent it the UDP broadcast adress, thus swamping the network. It's not the tool's fault, of course, but it made me giggle a bit back then. I never found out, though, if the culprit was acting maliciously or stupidly.