Prime95 on ghosted machines

[lozcs]

Originally Posted by Jacob Visser

- the clients do not have write access to their shares.
- more probable since I suppose you already checked that, prime95 cannot run from an unc location. So you must start prime95 from your M:\ drive not from the UNC.

Doh...

Gave write access to share mapped a drive and added it to startup.

All working now!



Thanks

[jasong]

Couldn't find an online definition for "ghosted machine." Judging from the Google hits, it means to take the data on one machine, whether it be RAM, a hard drive, a cd, a thumb drive, etc., and exactly duplicate it in another location.

The question in my mind is, do you have to duplicate the entire cd, hard drive, RAM, whatever, for it to be called ghosting? What about a directory with a program that could benefit from running on more than one computer, like Prime95? Linguistically speaking(I hope I wrote that correctly) can you ghost a Prime95 directory?

[sdbardwick]

In this context, ghosting refers to rewriting a computer hard drive from a stored image, ensuring that the system is restored to a known good state. The tool used is a disk imaging application, like Norton Ghost.

[moo]

Originally Posted by jasong

Couldn't find an online definition for "ghosted machine." Judging from the Google hits, it means to take the data on one machine, whether it be RAM, a hard drive, a cd, a thumb drive, etc., and exactly duplicate it in another location.

The question in my mind is, do you have to duplicate the entire cd, hard drive, RAM, whatever, for it to be called ghosting? What about a directory with a program that could benefit from running on more than one computer, like Prime95? Linguistically speaking(I hope I wrote that correctly) can you ghost a Prime95 directory?

to answer your question
its like taking a picture with a film camera
the picture doesnt change but you can make copies of it.
thats how places with large ammounts of computers deploy them

i work after hours at my school as an intern now we keep about 500 or so im guessing computers going thats a lot when they go down we dont reinstall windows we ghost them which takes the time from 5 - 6 hours for a reinstall and configure to about 15 minute ghost 30 minute configure and patching can be done once its deployed.

[battlemaxx]

I thought you could run Prime95 locally but point to data on a server.

From the readme:
-Wdirectory This tells prime95 to find all its files in a different
directory than the executable.

And if each machine didn't have its own share, I suppose you could use a single one with:

-An This is used to run two or more copies of prime95
from the same directory. Using this command line argument
causes prime95 to use a different set of filenames for the
INI files, the results file, the log file, and the spool file.
Just use a different value of n for each copy of
prime95.exe you start.

Just a thought, and I haven't tried this type of configuration.

[crash893]

every time i run p95 over the network its slow as all get out

mabey you could by 6 small usb drives with and have them auto run or something

that way the info is local and should speed things up a bit