<div dir="ltr">Consider the fog project<br><br><a href="http://fogproject.org">fogproject.org</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Jim Maunder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techo@ruyton.vic.edu.au">techo@ruyton.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello All -<br>
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I have a small technical query about FTP/network throughput/Windows disk performance. I am fairly ignorant about such things, having just enough knowledge to be a danger to the organisation.<br>
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Nearly every term break I re-image the lab computers, and in the past have used DOS boot disks to either connect to a Windows share (using Windows for Workgroups extensions for DOS) on a Win98 machine, or to a network drive (using a DOS ODI driver) and DriveImage2000. More recently I have been using Novell StoreManager on a WinPE DVD to connect to a FTP servers. Last year the FTP server was our intranet box (running some kind of linux). A typical re-image would take 12 mins for 1 PC, 30 minutes for 2 PCs and an hour for 6 PCs.<br>
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This year I have been using a WinXP box (plenty big, lots of RAM, single SATA disk, gigabyte LAN card) with FileZilla FTP server running, and this is where my query comes from. A typical re-image now takes about 7 minutes (the same tame it would take to copy the image files from the server) for a single PC, 45 minutes for 2 PCs and 2 hours for 6 PCs. What causes this dramatic reduction in speed, and is there a workaround that does not involve Ghost or Zenworks?<br>
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(This time I do 2 PCs at a time - one via the network and FTP, the other using a 16Gb USK stick, and this keeps me fully occupied as both take about 6-7 minutes to do)<br>
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Sorry about the longwinded waffle, but I got to the question eventually.<br>
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rgds<br>
Jim<br>
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