Using PING

 Choose to boot on the CD you've burnt with the PING ISO.

If you don't see the option in your boot sequence, you'll probably have to modify your BIOS settings.

Note that a PXE Server is needed to boot from the network.
Our Linux kernel has been loaded, and our distribution is being uncompressed.
Press ENTER to go on.

Note that if you don't want to use our menu-driven wizard, you might press x and ENTER to get a shell. User root has no password.
Usual warnings. Press ENTER.

The wizard will then try to connect to the LAN. If it doesn't succeed in getting an IP from a DHCP server, it will ask you for an IP, a netmask, and a gateway IP.
Here, you'll find the list of available images. They are stored in the PartImage directory of your host computer. Choosing one image will restore the computer with it, thus erasing all your hard disk.

But by default, as shown in the screenshot, there are only these 4 special images. They act as commands.

  • Backup Local Hard Disk: will zip your drives on a network share
  • Blank Local Admin's password: will change administrator's password to an empty string
  • Create New Image: to save a Ghost-like image of your hard disk, BIOS settings included (we choose it)
  • Partition and Format ANY Computer: this image will partition computers according to settings present in your \PartImage\ Partition_and_ Format_ANY_Computer\ hda.part file. Edit it to suit your needs.
We need to know where to save the image.

Give the IP of the computer you've shared the PartImage folder on.
Now, the name of the share.

Example: \\mydomain\temp => the share is called temp.
Now, the user name on the network.

It might also be a local account (eg.: administrator).

(You'll be asked for the password afterwards.)
Now, the directory path, from the share to the PartImage directory.

Example: if you created C:\PartImage on server Billy, and shared it, then your resource should be \\billy\partimage. So, IP is Billy's IP, share is partimage, and directory is nothing.

Example: if you created C:\temp\PartImage on server Billy, but shared the temp directory, then your resource should be \\billy\temp\partimage. So, IP is Billy's IP, share is temp, and the directory is \partimage.
Finally, tell the wizard how will be called your new image.

On your storage computer, we'll create a new \PartImage\NameOfImage directory.
That's all.

In this screenshot, BIOS settings are being saved...
Then, the partitions themselves...

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