As far as schools having lots of iBooks with CD-ROMs.. IF the school
happens to have an OS X Server machine then just create a NetBoot image
and use NetRestore to drop a new image of Tiger on it. All you have to
do is find ONE machine capable on installing Tiger and you are Good to
go. http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html
We do this at work to re-image the machines for testing. Running OS X
Server from an XServe G4 to an iBook, it will take about 10 minutes to
have a fully installed and working machine.
And, yes I understand how poor they are. My wife is a Kindergarten
teacher and I have spent my own hard earned money to put an iBook and
Airport in her classroom.
Now, Can we be done with this thread? I would like to get back to
reading about technical questions about running Java on the Mac.
If anyone would like more information about how to do this, please
contact me OFFLINE and I would be happy to give you my notes on how to
create the NetRestore/NetBoot/NetInstall stuff.
Mike Jackson.
On Apr 13, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Glen Fisher wrote:
Victor Langelo wrote:
| OK. There's exactly one machine with a CD Rom drive. The least
expensive
| iBook. I doesn't exactly see how this is going to slow the academic
| market from getting Tiger. At least not any more that the usual
glacial
| pace. I'm sure some where at every institution there's an external
drive
| of some sort that can be used to perform an upgrade. The installer
may
| even work off a server.
I wonder whether you understand just how poor the average school
system is.
That low-end model is available to academic customers because they
need it
and buy it. It's not at all unlikely that *every* purchase at a school
would
be the DVD-less model. The same cash starvation would make it likely
that
there *wouldn't* be "an external drive of some sort" just lying around,
because that drive wouldn't be purchased unless someone justified the
cost
and then scrounged the money for it from somewhere. Until a couple of
days
ago, most schools probably had no real need for a DVD drive at all,
making
it rather hard to justify spending money on one.
Glen Fisher
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