Dual boot intel mac, Image deployment

rc3477

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I am exploring the possibilities of image deployment and I'm seeking the endless knowledge of the users of this forum. That said I have around 40 macs that use bootcamp with osx 10.5.4 and windows xp. What I want to do is image one mac that has everything setup...xp, applications all that good stuff. And then deploy this image to all of the other macs at the years end to clear everything and start fresh.

If anyone has some ideas, I've looked into casper and acronis snap but they seem to not support one of the operating systems?

Thanks
 
Are they all the same type of Mac?

If not, it may not be possible to create an image, of, say, an Intel-based iMac and deploy it to a G5 iMac... or make an image of a 2009 Mac Pro and deploy it to a 2006 Mac Pro.

Do you have a Mac running Mac OS X Server? A simpler solution may be "NetBoot," whereby you can make one image of a computer, then boot multiple computers over the network with that one image. If you have different kinds of Macs, you can make multiple images and choose which image boots which computer.
 
Or use asr.

/Applications/Utilities > Disk Utility >> the "Restore" tab.
Or in Terminal. asr. man asr for syntax - the command line asr works much better.

First create the restore image one of one system.
Then restore - source needs to be reachable, and same caveats (licensing, hardware type of Macs etc).
 
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