Back around 2003, I couldn't convince those that counted to spring the petty cash for Ghost; ended up building a custom Morphix[0] CD - well two actually. On boot up, one image would "dd | ftp <local ftp server>" to create an image to be used by the second which . . . splat the ftp disk image onto as many machines as there were copies of that cd. Improved the life of our PC techs measurably.
If the techs needed to build more desktops they just burnt another cd.
Was an all MS shop, but for this, I was granted an indulgence.
Back around 2003, I couldn't convince those that counted to spring the petty cash for Ghost; ended up building a custom Morphix[0] CD - well two actually. On boot up, one image would "dd | ftp <local ftp server>" to create an image to be used by the second which . . . splat the ftp disk image onto as many machines as there were copies of that cd. Improved the life of our PC techs measurably. If the techs needed to build more desktops they just burnt another cd. Was an all MS shop, but for this, I was granted an indulgence.
[0] https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=morphix