Creating RIS Images
After your RIS servers, you must decide how to distribute the operating system. There are two ways to do that. You can perform a CD-based installation or you can perform a mirror installation, which is cloning computers. You’ve already configured the RIS server for CD-based installations. This section describes how to create mirror-image installations.
Use Riprep.exe to create mirror images. Riprep.exe allows you to create customized images to install on your client operating system. The first thing you need is a master image with all the applications and configurations; this becomes the referenced computer that you will use to make a master image. After you configure the master installation, you run Riprep, which is on the ...
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