Recently I developed five screensavers with very visible Bible verses on each photo, and we wanted to include them in our two primary Ghost Images (one for churches and missionaries, and one for Senior Citizen centers). We also wanted to make other changes to those two images, for example they had been made on a computer with a NIC installed, so all machines they were installed on had the Logon Screen that normally only exists on a machine with a NIC. We also wanted to delete a folder which was just confusing to people eeing it on the desktop.
We installed those images, one at a time, to a Hard Drive, and inserted them into a 486 system with no sound card, no nic, etc, and installed one of the screensavers from a CD. We deleted the confusing folder, and removed the NIC drivers. We then took that hard drive, and made a new Ghost Image on my Image Machine for each of the two images.
I then took a blank, formatted Hard Drive, and put it in a drive tray and inserted it into my image machine. I booted my image machine up with a Clone 4.1 Disk, used the function on it to load a DOS CD Driver, and copied the five screensaver EXE files to the disk in my drive tray. I then booted my Image Machine up to the GHOST partition, and quit the Ghost program, putting me at a DOS prompt. I then copied the new BIBLE.GHO and SENIOR.GHO files to the disk in my drive tray.
I took the drive in the drive tray and inserted it into each Image Machine, and:
The image machine (it was an 8 gig image machine) was now updated. I then inserted a GHOST Floppy disk and booted the Image Machine up from a GHOST Floppy. I then made a ghost image of the entire Image Machine hard drive. I called it IMG8. GHOST will only create files that are about 2Gig in size, so IMG8 actually consists of three files: IMB8.GHO is 2,147,465,170; IMG80001.GHS is 2,147,478,323; IMG80002.GHS is 207,802,864. Any Image Machine that has a copy of IMG8 is able to make new Image Machines.
I did the same procedure to an Image Machine on a 13 Gig Hard Drive, including copying the IMG8*.* files up to the Ghost Partition, and then making a ghost image of the entire 13gig Image Machine hard drive. I called it IMG13. IMG13 actually consists of four files: IMG13.GHO is 2,147,461,400; IMG13001.GHS is 2,147,455,676; IMG13002.GHS is 2,147,451,605; IMG13003.GHS is 2,104,536,171. Any Image Machine that has a copy of IMG13 is able to make new Image Machines that can make new Image Machines.
I took the drive tray back to my Image Machine, booted into the Ghost Partition, and did a Copy D:IMG*.*, copying both the 8 Gig and the 13 Gig Ghost images, and now I have an Image machine that can use an 8 Gig Hard drive to make an Image Machine, or use a 13 Gig Hard drive to make an Image Machine that can make additional Image Machines. With a 30 Gig Hard drive (actually a 22 Gig one should work, but I have never seen that size HD) I can make an Image Machine that can make Image Machines that can make additional Image Machines.
I formatted a blank hard drive and put it in a drive tray and booted my image machine to the GHOST partition, and exited from the GHOST program back to DOS, and then I did a copy *.* d:. I can then place that drive in any Image Machine, boot to the GHOST partition, exit from the GHOST program back to DOS, and copy up the GHO (and GHS if there are any) files for any image I want on that new Image Machine.