Probably just a way for Michael Dell to act like Steve Jobs. Apple has a Unix-like operating system. Now maybe Dell will adopt one. It's all part of his Jobsian obsession.
I agree, NetRestore is the way to go. Although NetRestore and Carbon Copy Cloner are just GUIs to the command line asr tool, they make the job much easier and more automated.
I work for a school district and we have a dual 1.25 G MDD G4 as a NetRestore Server. I use this to reimage labs and new machines out of the box.
Use the newest computer you have and set it up for the lab. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to create the image with. Boot the source computer in Target disk mode and plug it into your computer with a firewire cable. Make the image, scan for ASR, and compress it. Compressing takes longer to do, but it will restore faster later on.
When we just need to reimage a few machines, we use a firewire drive with a bootable OS X system and NetRestore. When we have a whole lab to do, we use the NetRestore server. It doesn't multicast, but it goes pretty quick. You could easily do 125 machines in an afternoon. Mike Bombich has some excellent documentation on imaging and has earned a lot of respect and thanks from the Mac community.
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They should just use the Inanimate Carbon Rod to make the repair.
Probably just a way for Michael Dell to act like Steve Jobs. Apple has a Unix-like operating system. Now maybe Dell will adopt one. It's all part of his Jobsian obsession.
I agree, NetRestore is the way to go. Although NetRestore and Carbon Copy Cloner are just GUIs to the command line asr tool, they make the job much easier and more automated.
I work for a school district and we have a dual 1.25 G MDD G4 as a NetRestore Server. I use this to reimage labs and new machines out of the box.
Use the newest computer you have and set it up for the lab. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to create the image with. Boot the source computer in Target disk mode and plug it into your computer with a firewire cable. Make the image, scan for ASR, and compress it. Compressing takes longer to do, but it will restore faster later on.
When we just need to reimage a few machines, we use a firewire drive with a bootable OS X system and NetRestore. When we have a whole lab to do, we use the NetRestore server. It doesn't multicast, but it goes pretty quick. You could easily do 125 machines in an afternoon. Mike Bombich has some excellent documentation on imaging and has earned a lot of respect and thanks from the Mac community.