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Best Way to Image and Deploy Dual-Boot Macintosh?

Posted by Cliff on from the going-both-ways dept.

macpulse asks: "What is the best way to image and deploy dual-boot Intel Macintosh desktops in an Educational environment? Our organization is getting ready to purchase dozens of new Intel Macs for each campus and we're not sure how to proceed. With Windows XP and Dell, we've simply used Symantec's Enterprise Ghost to deploy our images. Playing with the test Intel Macs we have, we are unable to get Ghost to work with the Mac. I've also played with Bombich's NetRestore product (which is FOSS!) but without much success. I'm curious how my fellow readers have resolved this issue. Thanks!"

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  1. Use netboot by appleguru · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://www.bombich.com/mactips/dualboot.html

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  2. Imaging by nix4kickz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    why not just us the built in imaging utility on your mac restore disc and just have the computers automatically boot that restore image across the network. First you would get your tiger disc or recovery disc and make an image of everything using the disc utility while your booted up to your tiger dvd disc. Second you would host that image on whatever computer you wanted to have available to access the image. Third you would force bout your apple to a network location, which it will ask you to specify and wallah your done.