G5's have some extra things on them to run the G5. Images made of a G4
won't work on a G5.
Stephanie Griffin
Technology Coordinator
Beach School
Piedmont CA
On 8/30/05 12:02 PM, "email@hidden"
<email@hidden> wrote:
> I have a classroom full of iMac G5 (Tiger) computers being served by
> a G4 Xserve (Tiger Server). I wanted to use the Netboot install
> image method of setting them up. I used the System Image Utility on
> the server to create an image of an already-set-up-the-way-I-wanted-
> it iMac in firewire target disk mode. When I boot the other iMacs,
> they get to the apple with spinning swirly and stop.
>
> Some tcpdump analysis seems to show that it got the 'booter', kernel
> and kernel extensions file, but stops there. Is it bad to use the G4
> to make images for a G5? I figured it didn't matter since it's just
> grabbing everything off of the hard disk.
>
> --
> - Peter Schwenk
> - CITA-3, Systems Administrator
> - Mathematical Sciences
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