[Pc_Support] WinXP + SysPrep + Norton Ghost basics

[Damien McKenna]

Its been five years since I last used Norton Ghost to do anything and at
the time I was only working with Windows 9x.  At work I'm attempting to
set up our customer service department's Windows XP machines to be
managed using Norton Ghost or a similar program, but have some questions
over how it all works.
 
First off, from what I've read it seems that I really need to install
the Ghost Client Partition, then install the OS & applications?  Is
there any way to put the partition on after an OS has already been
installed?
 
Secondly, after I have the install fine tuned the way I want, am I right
in saying I have to use the SysPrep tool to clean down the installation
so that it can then be copied to other computers?  What happens after
the cloned machines next boot, do they have to go through part of the
Windows installation?  All of our machines are identical (same model 'n
everything) and I want to avoid as much post-imaging fiddling as
possible.

Any insights would be appreciated, I've got very little time to do a
test, decide what method we're going to use and implement it.

Thanks.

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