Monday 6/15 from 10-3pm

Today I got to re-image my first lab. It was a treat for me. The district uses Novell ZenWorks to create bootable CD's to clone machines. ZenWorks is server based so rather than imaging each machine from the server, I set up one machine as the "Master" and the rest as "clients". This way only one machine had to draw from the server; the rest draw from the master. Following are the steps I took to do this:

1. boot from CD
2. choose manual imaging
3. run image
4. set to multi-cast and assign the role of Master
5. boot the rest from CD
6. choose manual imaging
7. set to multi-cast and assign the role of client
8. start session from Master
9. check to see all clients are receiving and sit back and wait =)

Now there was one more thing that had to be done. There is a glitch with some machines and Zen that causes it to not reset drive letters as needed. The network drives use the default letters for the four removable drives. That means all four drives on each machine had to be renamed L, M, N, and O. The other issue was with the computer names. They all assumed the name of the Master. I also had to go in on each machine and change the name. Following are the steps I took to do this:

1. right-click on the my-computer icon
2. scroll and click on properties
3. under the "computer name" tab click on "change"
4. set name as desired
5. click ok and ok again
6. choose to restart now or later(name change won't take affect until restart)

This was a time-consuming process but a great learning experience. Tomorrow I get to re-image the community ed. room. YAE!!! Until tomorrow… =)