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Re: Deployment without netboot

> In the past I have enjoyed the ease of using Disk Copy to make <2GB
> images of hard drives for a set of iBooks running OS9. Life was good.
>
> How is everyone deploying OS X images? The images are much larger than
> 2GB (in fact, my setup with apps runs well over 4 Gig). What am I
> missing? I really don't have access to a NetBoot server (yet)...but
> there must be a simple solution to this simple problem...

I used a firewire harddisk and carbon copy cloner (get it from
www.versiontracker.com/macosx/) to clone several computers since MacOS
X 10.0.

1) Setup your master maschine
2) attach a firewire harddisk to it (maybe partition it to use the rest
for data - a partition of 6 GB is good for my big setups :-) )
3) Fireup CarbonCopyCloner and clone the startupdisk to the partition
on the firewire disk
4) now you can shut your computer down and move the firewiredisk to the
computer you wish to clone
5) press ALT when you turn on your computer and select the firewiredisk
in the bootmanager
6) you now boot off the CLONED image from the firewiredisk and get a
running OSX Environment
7) now partition or format the target drive (INTERNAL) of the computer
to clone
8) use CarbonCopyCloner again to restore the system from the firwire to
the internal disk
9) REBOOT - DONE :-)

This worked quite well for me.
Another approach is to create a bootable OSX CD (quite tricky) and use
then carboncopycloner to restore from a networked DMG-image.

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Wolfgang Reutz
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department of computer science / Vorarlberg university of applied
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