New image issues. disk utitily progress resource is busy

I have a lab of 20 new Imac computers. I want pull an image from one computer that I configured to the other 19 computers
I installed leopard on a firewire drive
restarted Imac
pressed option and booted the firewire drive
opened disk utility
highlighted the internal hard drive on Imac
clicked on new image
selected the location to the firewire drive
and now I receive the following error
disk utility progress
unable to create "wdc wd3200aajs-40vwa1 media.dmg". (resource is busy)

If I am reading correctly, you want to image one computer onto all the others. The best tool for this job is "asr". The pitfall with doing such clones is that there is some specific system informtion that you don't want to clone.
Good information about asr can be found:
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/image.html
A good helper tool from the same source is:
http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html
Note: I am not sure if that is causing your error message, it is just a suggestion of a method that I know works well.
Cheers,
Rodney

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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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