Posted on 05-22-2009 06:11 AM
Dear all,
have you ever tried to deploy Linux image back to a mac ? What do you use to make the image of the linux partition?
Would "dd" be too slow for 40 machines to be deployed at the same time on a 1Gpbs network enviroment?
My main goal is to have iMacs for courses and forget about the pc's. So basically I would have them all with a triple boot (Mac, windows and linux) and then redeploy the windows (via winclone) or Linux (via dd??) images using casper policies (and various scripts) so I can redeploy the latest up to day images of both systems
For windows I have no problem, the scrips inside Winclone are doing the job,but for linux I think ""dd" could be a little bit too much (since it copies sector by sector, even empty sectors).
Thanks in advance
cheers
Carmelo Lopez Portilla
ITS EMBL Heidelberg
email: lopez at embl.de