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I'd like to make 1 "master CD" of XP with all of the installed programs teachers may need.
We have some type of mass volume licensing in the district, so we can clone this as many times as I need to as long as our computers are on the campus. Anyway, I'd like to do this... Install XP along with drivers, SP3, flash, java, reader, office, firefox, ie7, symantec, blah blah blah... and "snapshot" it (like ghost, I guess) to an ISO... then make that ISO bootable on a CD/DVD.
My goal is to have a master installation CD that can be taken care of completely unattended. With the short staff we have and the hundreds of computers that need serviced, it's just mind boggling trying to get this all done.
Is there such a thing?
I'm looking for programs for XP or Ubuntu. They just need to be free.
Also - Anybody use the "dd" command in Ubuntu? Would that do what I need? If I set up Ubuntu + my work copy of XP, could I log onto Ubuntu and "dd" the XP partition to do what I listed above?
I'd like to make 1 "master CD" of XP with all of the installed programs teachers may need.
We have some type of mass volume licensing in the district, so we can clone this as many times as I need to as long as our computers are on the campus. Anyway, I'd like to do this... Install XP along with drivers, SP3, flash, java, reader, office, firefox, ie7, symantec, blah blah blah... and "snapshot" it (like ghost, I guess) to an ISO... then make that ISO bootable on a CD/DVD.
My goal is to have a master installation CD that can be taken care of completely unattended. With the short staff we have and the hundreds of computers that need serviced, it's just mind boggling trying to get this all done.
Is there such a thing?
I'm looking for programs for XP or Ubuntu. They just need to be free.
Also - Anybody use the "dd" command in Ubuntu? Would that do what I need? If I set up Ubuntu + my work copy of XP, could I log onto Ubuntu and "dd" the XP partition to do what I listed above?