[Casper] Linux deployment

[Carmelo Lopez]

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



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