site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Radmind Tools : http://www.lucidsystems.org/tools/radmind Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... On this site we have a single 10.5 image. This image works on all the hardware on site and it works on both PPC and Intel systems. If you get new hardware you may need to use a later build of the operating system in order to get all the hardware working. Admittedly, there are no MacBook Air units (yet) to worry about on this site. I think the key is to ensure that your base OS can easily be rebuilt so that when you get new shipment of hardware it is not a complete nightmare to get it working. There are many approaches to this problem. If you do want a separate base load set for each of your machines you may be interested in the following link which has some tools to make radmind detect the OS and select base load-sets based on the underlying OS. This is very handy if you are running 10.4 or earlier and may be handy if you are 'lucky' enough to be managing a Mac Book Air deployment. When creating images, apparently the prevailing theory is that you should create an image for each form factor - use an emac to create an emac image, ibook G4 - ibook G4 image, etc. I am trying to understand if the reason for that was if there was something unique to the OS for each form factor or if it was what happened after the OS was installed during the process of installing all the other components of the image. I work in a school where we have iBook G4's, eMacs, MacBooks and Intel iMacs. I don't know where you read that prevailing theory but it's not true. You can have a single image per architecture (PPC or Intel) unless you have a different reason for another image. I have 1 image for PPC Tiger and 1 for Intel Tiger. There is nothing different installed for different form factors with the exception of maybe santa rosa Macs but that was a weird situation. And now with Leopard, 1 image will work with both architectures. PS. This is the wrong list for this. You should join system-imaging list. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com