Advice for restoring lab computers
I have about 30 Intel Macs in a lab that I want to restore with a bootable disk image I have created. I have an active netboot server, but all the clients boot to their local HDs.
I was planning on loading the disk image file on a mount point, booting the client machines to the netboot image, and then running disk utility to restore the client HDs from the disk image residing on the mount point.
Is this a good method? Is there a better solution? It is a 100-base network and the disk image for the local HDs can range from 25GB to 75GB. I'd like to be able to complete the restore within a 10-hour time frame--is this realistic?
Thanks,
-David
PPC Xserve, Mac OS X (10.4.9)