On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:56:48PM -0500, David Alanis wrote: > [...] > ... ok here is my question :P what > recommendations can I get regarding the cloning of Window computers without > the hassle of using a third party crap? > I've used the feather linux live cd (http://featherlinux.berlios.de) for making and deploying images of windows XP machines. I shrink the filesystem with ntfsresize and fdisk to get a standard size, then take an image with partimage and drop it on a samba share over the network. Reverse the sequence to deploy an image. So far the machines have not been in a domain so I haven't worried about duplicate SID's, but I think you could use sysprep (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302577) for that. You should be able to script most of this, but I haven't gotten around to it, myself. You'll still need different images for different hardware configurations. I'd be happy to hear if someone has a solution for that. -Steve