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Why my summers always suck
- Thread starter Les Kern
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Wow want to give me one of the MILLION iBooks you have? Looks like you got a ton of boxes to unpack not the most exciting thing in the world.
I hope that you're not working 52 hours per week and 10 hours every other weekend like me. Fortunately, this routine will end once I move out of my current apartment. 
So, how many Macs do you have to prep for the coming school year? And aren't you glad they're not PC's?
As others have said....just be glad they're Macs. I gotta deal with HP/Compaqs all summer. Yay!
As I think about it, working on Apple's all day would be kinda, I dunno, more better.
As I think about it, working on Apple's all day would be kinda, I dunno, more better.
My wife's a professor, and summer's definitely slow time for her. The IT guys on her campus complain about the same thing: summer's insanely busy! It's actually somewhat of a problem for my wife because if she wants to upgrade the computers in her lab, summer is the best time for her but the worst time for IT.
Just out if interest...
this "image" you all keep talking about?
Does it let you install OS X simulataneously? On many macs over ethernet?
this "image" you all keep talking about?
Does it let you install OS X simulataneously? On many macs over ethernet?
Hmmmm this is very much Like my summer job.
Though I've only got something like 300 Macs to clone.
Though I've only got something like 300 Macs to clone.
SpaceMagic said:
We use a netboot server to do network restores. It's actually pretty easy, but a bit slow. Here's how I do it:
1. Make a perfect machine (harder than it sounds!) of all of your various lab machines and such.
2. Boot from a partitioned FW drive with NetRestore Helper on it from bombich.com.
3. Make the image by following the directions.
4. Upload the image to the netboot server.
5. Done. (well, not REALLY done, but enough for now)
Imaging takes as little as 7-8 minutes if you're doing one machine. I do 20-30 at a time and it takes a few hours. Some of my images are 15GB compressed to about 10GB.
Tiger has a multi-cast part, but DON'T use it! It shut my whole network down becasue it was blasting a 100MB stream all night. The DHCP server was freaked, and this whole thing REQUIRES DNS and DHCP.