Another day, another issue. Yesterday the BIOS one, was the one of the day. After accessing the BIOS and changing the boot order I wanted to clone my master machine to the rest of the lab, using an imaging software on the server.
The server (an Apple Xserve with some extra functionality) of the lab comes with Deploy Studio for this task. But both, the laptop of the lab and my own one could not store an image on the server. The dhcp request did seam to time out, though both machines can get an ip-address fine otherwise.
After some tries, I called the company that shipped of the server and they reported, that other schools had problems with “Deploy Studio” already and that the Arconsis was the better choice. Sadly the software needs to be enabled against a fee of 70 euros first and I am not 100% sure this will solve my issue :/
Hmm, what to do now? Maybe use rsync, dd and friends to do the imaging myself? Or better try a software like SystemImager? Other field reports welcome ;D