[Udpcast] How to udpcast on G5 Mac?

[Christopher Curtis]

Rishi R. Arora wrote:

> 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?

Well, no.  However, I suspect you can get a Linux machine running on 
your network with the image you want to udpcast.  Gentoo seems to have 
live CDs available here:

http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/ppc/livecd/g5/

You may have to compile the udpcast client for PPC and put it in the 
image (or copy it onto each machine after booting -- yeech).  Then it 
should be a straightforward 'dd' to /dev/sda (or whatever).

I don't think Linux can mkhfs+ so you're probably stuck with dd(/gzip). 
  Otherwise, you could create the filesystem, install the bootloader, 
and then udpcast and unpack a tarfile.

rgds,
Chris