What size drives did you have? I’m surprised you could reimage between classes.
Actually, it can be extremely fast, using either an image on a hidden partition on the hard drive, or if all the systems are identical, using multicasting (as long as you don't have any Dell switches on your network, because you'll wind up with broadcast storms).
From start to finish, it can take less than 7 minutes.
Policy based imaging can be your friend - Zenworks from Novell is my personal favorite in Windows environments, although for single computers, it's hard to beat Ghost.
Mark
Actually, it can be extremely fast, using either an image on a hidden partition on the hard drive, or if all the systems are identical, using multicasting (as long as you don't have any Dell switches on your network, because you'll wind up with broadcast storms).
From start to finish for a basic system, it can take less than 7 minutes.
Policy based imaging can be your friend - Zenworks from Novell is my personal favorite in Windows environments, although for single computers, it's hard to beat Ghost.
Mark