Hi,
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?
Background ----------
I spoke with an Apple System Engineer in Canada and he has informed me that Apple doesn't have a multicast solution in place yet. However, the developers at Apple HQ have heard our cry all the way from here and may be working on finding a solution possibly in the near future.
Since I found this software last night I haven't had much time to play with it and workout all the compilation errors (missing and incomplete libraries for OSX). We have a Gb network for two brand new labs to be setup and running in a week. So I am really trying to find a more robust solution as the image may be modified during a term for repairs or a complete overhaul. For now our plan B is to use Carbon Copy Cloner from http://www.bombich.com, which is working out to be the only stable solution. Its a painfully slow process. One machine at a time. Alternatively, we can NetBoot a few machines at a time and use ASR (Apple Software Restore) but the disk isn't fast enough on our AFP shared drive to distribute data to more than 4 clients at a time. This process takes about 270-300 minutes to dump 21GB image on these clients since each connection is a unicast.
Any help and comments are appreciated.