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--- Forwarded Message from SUSAN C WEIER <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:57:32 -0500
>From: SUSAN C WEIER <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7648 Ghosting an OS X lab
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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We use Radmind to maintain our mac lab.  More info can be found at
http://www.radmind.org.  Radmind allows you to refresh and update
clients using an image on a MacOSX or Linux server.  It's designed to
use a minimum of bandwidth - comparing a text transcript of the hard
drive with a text transcript of the server image, and transferring only
those files which are required.  It doesn't actually image (we use
Carbon Copy Pro for that, http://www.bombich.com), but you can build
onto a base installation.

Bombich.com has some other MacOSX lab deployment ideas that may be worth
looking into if you have a MacOSX server.  We were looking for a
solution that would work with a linux server.

Susan Weier
Learning Support Services
University of Wisconsin-Madison



----- Original Message -----
From: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:14 pm
Subject: #7648 Ghosting an OS X lab

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> >Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:17:33 -0400
> >From: waltje <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: waltje <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
> <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Ghosting an OS X lab
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> Dear Colleagues:
>
> Does anybody have a good idea or application that would work for
> "ghosting"a Mac OS X lab?
>
> So far we have been storing a pristine image of our computers on an
> external harddrive, and that's very unwieldy, so I am looking for a
> way to
> clean and refresh (or update) machines without re-installing operating
> system and contents one-by-one.
>
> I know there is ghosting available for Windows machines, but have
> not been
> able to find similar mechanisms for an  OS X lab.
>
> Any info will be highly appreciated.
>
> Best regards from       Jorg
>
>
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> Dr. Jorg Waltje
> Director LRC
> Ohio University
> Gordy Hall 17 D
> Athens, Ohio 45701 (USA)
>
> Ph: (740) 593-2748
> Fax: (740) 593-0729
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