IBM R400 Laptops with BartPE and Ghost

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We got a bunch of new laptops at work and I had to create a new ghost image for them. I couldn’t use our network boot disk because it didn’t have NIC drivers for it so I ended up creating a BartPE CD that has ghost 8 on it and all the SATA and NIC drivers. I think this is a much better solution. The Bart PE will map a network to our ghost server were we have all of our images and I just fire up ghost and go to our network so I can image the laptop or create an image from the laptop. To setup BartPE was really easy. I searched on how to add ghost and setup a mapped drive in BartPE. Within a couple hours I had a working CD where I can ghost computers and create images.

I setup 3 mobilecarts with laptops and We got some APC Extended battery this time. I really don’t like the tips for the extended battery. All the rest of the tips are angled but the IBM ones. I had put in a work order for engineering to drill a hole on the top of the mobilecarts so the user could stick a pencil or a pen to power on the laptop. If the tips for the IBM laptops were angled we wouldn’t have to drill a hole on the mobilecart and the laptop would fit nicely.

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