Rishi R. Arora wrote:
I am interested in finding a solution to multicast a very large 21GB image onto our new G5 machines. We have got quite a few to do so ASR via Firewire is no longer an acceptable solution. Has anyone ever done this before and been successful?
Well, no. However, I suspect you can get a Linux machine running on your network with the image you want to udpcast. Gentoo seems to have live CDs available here:
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/ppc/livecd/g5/
You may have to compile the udpcast client for PPC and put it in the image (or copy it onto each machine after booting -- yeech). Then it should be a straightforward 'dd' to /dev/sda (or whatever).
I don't think Linux can mkhfs+ so you're probably stuck with dd(/gzip). Otherwise, you could create the filesystem, install the bootloader, and then udpcast and unpack a tarfile.
rgds, Chris