Mac Recovery is Horrible!

[synth3tik]

I think I'll buy a small external drive and try loading the OS onto it. I'm going to also investigate creating an image.

Thanks for all of the input. Great forum. All the best!

never a bad idea to have an external with OS X. I have a small 20G Firewire drive that has a base install of 10.4 just in case.

 

[suneohair]

I put food on the table knowing how to use NetRestore.

Among other OS X applications and skills.

Bombich is god. A great guy too. I am going to a seminar where he is speaking about Macs and AD. A couple months ago I went to one where he talked about deployment of Windows and OS X in labs, among other deployment tips. Much of what he talked about is on his site. Great great stuff.

"Recovering from a Blinking '?'"
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/openfirmware.html