School deployment with Windows, Linux and Mac Os

Hi,
we have a project with a school where they want to make a classroom with 20 imacs. The imacs will have 3 systems (Mac, Win and Linux) at the same time.
They want the possibility to make something like the pc does with Rembo: When they need to format and reinstall the 20 imacs, do it over the network from a server.
Is it possible on iMacs?
Thank you very much for your help.

I have no idea if Dell = best of PC (use to be IBM, DEC, HP, Compaq) but I hand build my own. And a Mac is never as good at Windows and has a number of shortcoming when it coems to running Windows natively.
So I have to ask. Sometimes general purpose is the best of none and all the headaches.
Paragon has tools to deploy and move OS from virtual to physical and back, and between hardware. There are enterprise editions and tools. Ideally you just boot off a server and get your own profile and image no matter where you are.
OS X Server can run OS X Clients off VMs. And yes it would be nice to support any microcomputer or workstation or whatever. I am not the type to go for all in one anything iMac-ish. Give me a hard drive for each and don't try to mix Grub, MBR, GPT, NTFS along with HFS and EXT3.
You do know that you are VERY limited in and pushing what falls in "supported" and what partition table will handle this, as well as keeping Windows booting on Mac.
Boot Camp Assistant is not designed for such chores.

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If your friend has got a Late 2010 MacBook Air, the Mac came with a USB drive that contains Mac OS X Snow Leopard, to reset passwords, reinstall Mac OS X...
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