Links

• Winimage: [Windows] Utility to create and manipulate floppy images
• Bart's Page: [Windows] Utility to create all your images, or just read the scripts and understand how things work.
• BOOTDISK-HOWTO: [Documentation] How to create a CD based linux system.
• Discover: [Linux] A debian utility which is used by many Linux distribution for hardware identification.
• Symantec Ghost: [Windows/DOS] The ghost boot wizard makes the process of creating a DOS network boot disk almost trivial.
• VMWare: [Windows/Linux] When you dont want to waste a CD, every time you change one line of your script.
• mkisofs,mount: [Linux] Without the esoteric options of these two, creating linux images, would be a real pain.
• isolinux: [Linux] This is what makes such a dream close to possible
• Trusted Systems: [Windows] Guidelines and utilities for securing a windows system
• HardenNT: [Windows] Freeware, where you can specify what kind of security you what on your machines, and it generates some batch files. Executing these batch files on a machine enforces your security constraints. I found this to be very useful. I looked at the batch files it generates and got a lot of ideas from it.
• Winguides: [Documentation] The windows registry guide, and the windows scripting guide. Use this to find all the registry keys you can change in order to secure your system, change the look and feel...
• ActivePython: [Windows] Python for Windows. Easy to install (silently) and scripts in python can be very useful especially if you want to talk to linux systems.
• VB Scripting: [Windows] Download the VB Scripting documentation. A useful thing to have, even if you are going to write your scripts in Python.

• Link unattended.sourceforge.net: A windows deployment system
• Link willowhayes.co.uk: Windows 2000 unattended installations and related utilities
• Link Bart's Bootable CD: A windows based utility to create bootable CDs. This is highly modular, so you pick and choose what capabilities you want of the CD.