6.2. Image Delivery
Monolithic images can be pretty easy to deploy, especially on an ad hoc basis. The general outline of the process is this: Reboot a target system (often referred to as an imaging or base system) into target disk mode, connect it to a master-control computer, and then use Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html), Super Duper! (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper), or Apple's Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities on Mac OS X) to clone the master system to an attached system or an image file. You can also deploy images over a network, using Apple Software Restore (ASR) or NetRestore, which is a graphical interface to asr running on Mac OS X Server, NetInstall, which leverages NetBoot for imaging, or ...
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