IS FreeNAS on a notebook what I want?

[BALR1415]

I am doing a inventory of computers at a company, including backing up hard drives. I have just found 3 old Dells running Win98. Rather then use their USB ports, which most likely are 1.1, I was going to boot a BARTCD and run Ghost. These PCs are not networked and have open Ethernet ports, so I thought: attach a NAS device with a share, map a drive to it, and output the Ghost image to that.
I don't want to lug around my ReadyNAS, so I thought of putting something on a spare notebook. I have some that have 250GB drives available.
Does this sound reasonable?
Is FreeNAS not for notebooks ?

 

[gpsguy]

For your use case, I wouldn't bother with it. The laptops are ancient, probably have small amounts of RAM, BIOS might not support 250Gb drives, and I doubt they'd boot from a USB drive.

Are you using the Ghost Solution Suite (corporate version) or the home version of Ghost? If the former, I'd set it up on a Windows box (could be XP or 7), with a sizable drive, and do your Ghostcasting to it.

 

[tingo]

IMHO, FreeNAS on a laptop is almost never what anybody wants.