Massively Updating to Mac OS X?

Zerocool3001 asks: "I work for a school in California that uses all Macintoshes. All of the machines have Mac OS 9 on them. We would like to upgrade to Ma OS X 10.2 and we have a net install server with disk images ready to install. However, it appears as though net installations of disk images is not possible in Mac OS 9. If you have any way to install a disk image over a large network to about 500-700 computers, we could definitely use the suggestions."

Comments

Drink from the well . . .

[MaxwellStreet]

Instead of asking people here on Slashdot...

I'm sure that for these kinds of numbers, in a high-profile installation... -someone- over at Apple would be interested in making things go smoothly for you.

I'd imagine that you could get help directly from Apple - and probably better than anything you'll find here.

Netboot

[nocomment]

Wouldn't it be cheaper and worth the effort to do a netboot setup? THen you jsut go around to all the OS 9 machines and set the startup disk to be netboot (or whatever they call it I forget) and reboot :-).

Of course you might want to invest in gigabit ethernet and some switches at the same time. Other than that, you'd have to around to each machine individually with the OS X CD.