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a minimum of three months. Phone inquiries to: John Pruski, 952-938-2818 s^l mini'app'les Newsletter August, 2007 Configure Two Dozen Macs In An Afternoon Submitted by Tom Gates disk while that disk image is hosted image took a bit more than an hour locally, on a network via AFP, NFS or to complete. The process was simple Recently we had a need to configure multicast, or on the internet via and went very well for both more than two dozen iMac G4 Flat HTTP." That was exactly what we machines. Panel and G3 CRT machines for the wanted to do. Create the images to an school in a short period of time. external drive then restore the staff or Let the cloning begin. There were two different setups student image to the various required for the machines. The G4 machines. Time to see if this bit of magic was Flat Panels were to be configured as going to work for us. We pulled out teacher/staff machines with OS X 10.4 How to configure the master disk the first iMac G4 that would be a containing various additional pieces image. recipient of a teacher disk image. The of software installed such as Mac MS external drive was attached to the G4 Office, AppleWorks 6, iLife, multiple We set up one of the iMac G4 Flat via the FireWire cable. The G4 was internet browsers (, Firefox, Panel machines and gave it the full powered on as we held down the Mozilla, etc). The G3 CRT iMacs were load of software that we wanted for a "option" key. This provided us with a to be configured as student worksta teacher/staff machine. The OS was selection to boot from the internal tions with OS X 10.3, MS Office, loaded, the network settings set to disk drive or to boot from the first Internet browsers, etc. default values required on the school's partition of the external drive. We network, some initial tweaking of the selected the external drive and a In the past, a standard process was to software so that the initial registra minute or two later the G4 was run set up a number of computers along a tions were complete for the Office ning from the OS X installed on the couple cafeteria tables. Then start the suite, and Apple software updates external drive. process of loading the first machine were applied. Our master teacher with the OS CD and move along to machine was ready to clone. Next we started the NetRestore soft each subsequent machine. When the ware. The software asks the usual initial software was loaded then hook Next we set up one of the iMac G3 questions of where the source disk them up to the Internet via an CRT machines and went through the image is located and what will be the Ethernet switch for getting system same process with that that machine target device for the image. We select updates. This could take some time to set it up as a master for a student ed our 10.4 teacher image as the and constant attention to keep the work station. We were now ready to source and set the target to be the process moving. fire up Carbon Copy Cloner and cre internal disk drive in the G4. A couple ate our master disk images. other options were set to erase and This time, due to the number of reformat the internal drive before machines that needed to be config The device that was to hold our mas installing the image and to have the ured in a short time frame, it was time ter images was a 200GB external computer reboot from the new inter to look for alternate methods. At Firewire/USB disk drive. This we split nal disk image after the image install mini'app'les meetings there had been into two partitions. The first partition was completed. We clicked the "OK" frequent conversations about the was sized at about 10GB to give us button to proceed. Carbon Copy Cloner software from more than enough room to have a Mike Bombich (www.bombicli.com). very simple standard OS X 10.4 sys Since the creation of the initial image This sounded intriguing in that we tem installed to boot from and a copy had taken about an hour, we decided really did want to clone a large num of the NetRestore program. The this was a good time to take a short ber of Macs with the same couple of remaining space was assigned for the break and stretch our legs. About 15 configurations. The price of the soft second partition to be used to hold minutes later we came back into the ware was also a selling point. The soft any of the master disk images we cre room and saw the computer we were ware from this site is "donation ware" ated. This was formatted and we cloning was sitting with the initial and Mike Bombich says that "My installed a very basic OS X 10.4 sys logon screen. First thought was darn, heart is in Education and all software tem to be able to boot from the something weird happened and we'd that I write shall always be free to Firewire/USB drive. need to restart the process and watch education." We were sold. to see what was happening. But for With the external drive connected to whatever reason we decided to log on Carbon Copy Cloner would be able to the iMac G4, we began the process of to the G4 and take a look around. It make a copy of our configurations. running Carbon Copy Cloner to cre was running from the internal disk The second piece of software we need ate a disk image of that machine to drive! Some more poking around ed was the piece to put those configu the second partition of the external proved to us that this had everything rations back on to our staff and stu drive. The process of producing the installed on it that we expected. We dent machines. That piece turned out G4 teacher image took just over an un-mounted the two partitions of the to be the NetRestore, also from hour. Next we hooked the external external drive and unplugged the Bombich Software. NetRestore's stated drive to the iMac G3 and ran Carbon Firewire cable. purpose is "NetRestore can be used to Copy Cloner to create our G3 image quickly and accurately restore a mas on the external drive. Again the We pulled out the next G4 to be ter disk image to a computer's hard process to create the G3 student cloned, connected the external drive mini'app'les Newsletter August, 2007 via the FireWire cable as before, and ter drive. Copying this image of about we had a number of other iMac CRT's did another "option" boot to select 8GB by FireWire to the internal drive and iMac G4 Flat panel machines the external drive as the boot drive. really doesnt take that long. This was added to the inventory. This method Again we ran NetRestore and set the kind of our "Dun!" moment as we of cloning these computers from the source image and target drive, select realized the tool we'd just created for master image has greatly reduced the ed the couple other settings for the ourselves to image all of the remain time required to set up a computer disk reformat and clicked "OK". This ing G4 and G3 iMacs. both in wall time and in a person's time we sat back and watched. About busy time spent in front of the eight minutes later the NetRestore After about two hours we nearly had machine during configuration. software quit, the G4 began a reboot more iMac G4 machines setting process, and we were then greeted around on the floor ready to be sent Not the complete magic bullet. with the OS X login screen. Once to the various classrooms than we had again we logged on to the G4 and floor space. We had just done in a This process has been extremely use found everything in place and un couple of hours what we could have ful for the initial base configuration of mounted the two external drive parti only dreamed of doing in a weekend's the machines. But there is still the on tions. work configuring the machines the going work of keeping the machines "old fashion way". updated with the Apple Software Of course reading the users manual to Updates and any application software a piece of software can give one great For the most part the G3 iMac config that may be added later. For that insight. Having been used to the CD- urations went as well as the G4's. The process we are currently in the early ROM swapping of a manual system difference being that some of the CRT stages of using setup it was easy to overlook the fact Macs were not FireWire machines and (ARD) to push out changes to select that all NetRestore had to do was the external drive was connected via groups of computers. As we get more copy the drive image block by block the USB port. The USB machine experience under our belt with ARD from the external drive image to the cloning took about 35 minutes per we'll have to write an update to this internal target drive. This didnt machine. Longer than the G4 process, process. involve file by file copying and there but very much shorter than the man were no install programs running ual method. here doing all the various setup that they do. That had all been accom Since late summer when we config plished when we built the initial mas- ured this initial group of computers, Apple Unveils Near Final Mac OS X Leopard Submitted by John Pmski will further extend Mac OS X's leader any file, and even play media files, '^] ship as the most advanced and innov without opening an application. WWDC 2007, SAN FRANCISCO— ative operating system in the world," June 11, 2007—Apple® today said , Apple's CEO. "We With its unique ability to let users unveiled a near final version of Mac think current and prospective cus travel back in time to find deleted OS® X Leopard, the sixth major tomers are going to love Leopard, and files, applications, photos and other release of the world's most advanced that it will help make the Mac even digital media, Time Machine is a revo operating system. Scheduled to ship more popular." lutionary way to protect your digital in October, Leopard introduces over life. With just a one-click setup. Time 300 new features, including a new Leopard includes a completely new Machine automatically keeps an up- Desktop and Dock with Stacks, an Dock featuring Stacks, which can help to-date copy of everything on the intuitive new way to organize files; an manage a user's desktop clutter Mac. In the event a file is lost, users updated featuring Cover caused by browser and email down can use Mac OS X's ™ to Flow™ and a new way to easily loads. With the click of a mouse, users search back through time to find and browse and share files between multi can instantly fan out the contents of a then instantly restore the file. Time ple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to stack to easily see each item. Machine can automatically back up a rapidly preview most files without Leopard's Finder has been completely Mac to an external hard drive con opening an application; Time redesigned, adding Cover Flow as an nected with a FireWire® or USB cable, Machine, a new way to easily and innovative way to quickly browse and to a server, or wirelessly to an AirPort automatically back up and restore lost locate files and applications. Finder's Extreme® base station with an files or a complete Mac®; Spaces, a new Sidebar simplifies the organiza attached hard drive. powerful new feature to create groups tion of files on a Mac, and adds easy of applications and instantly switch access to shared Macs and PCs on a Leopard also includes three new tech between them; and enhanced iChat home network. Subscribers to .Mac nologies that take full advantage of and Mail applications, which easily can also use the new "Back to my the latest developments in processor allow users to communicate even Mac" feature to browse and access files hardware: full native 64-bit support to more creatively. on their remote Macs over the enable applications to take complete Internet. Also new in Leopard is advantage of 64-bit processing while "Leopard is the best release of Mac OS Quick Look, an innovative new way still running side by side with existing |^% X to date, surpassing even Tiger, and for users to instantly preview almost 32-bit Mac OS X applications and dri- mini'app'les Newsletter August, 2007 vers; easy multi-core optimization and clutter-free way to create customized Apple ignited the personal computer scheduling to take advantage of the spaces on the desktop with only the revolution in the 1970s with the latest Intel hardware; and Core applications or files needed for each Apple II and reinvented the personal Animation, helping developers easily project, and the ability to quickly computer in the 1980s with the create animated user experiences as switch between them with one click Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to amazing as Leopard's Spaces and Time of a mouse or keystroke; lead the industry in innovation with Machine in their own applications. * Web Clip, bringing anything that a its award-winning computers, OS X user wants from a web page to operating system and iLife and profes Other new features in Leopard Dashboard as a live widget; sional applications. Apple is also include: * Boot Camp, making it possible to spearheading the digital media revo run Windows natively on Intel-based lution with its iPod portable * Leopard Mail, offering more ways to Macs*; and and video players and iTunes online customize and add personal style to * new development tools, including store, and will enter the mobile phone email than ever before, with more ® 3 with a next generation edi market this year with its revolutionary than 30 beautiful stationery designs tor; an all new for iPhone. and layouts that look great on a Mac easier integration of advanced anima or Windows PC; Notes, making it as tion effects into an application; sim easy to take and organize notes as it is pler debugging; and support for to compose and read emails; To Dos, Objective-C 2.0; DashCode, a better for creating lists viewed directly in way to create new Dashboard widgets Mail and automatically sync them without writing a line of code; and with iCal®; and data detectors that Xray, a new application for optimiz automatically sense phone , ing application performance. addresses and events so they can be easily added to Address Book or iCal; Pricing & Availability * Leopard iChat with iChat Theater, Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard is letting users present photos, presenta scheduled to ship in October and will tions, videos and files in a video con be available through the Apple Store® ference; effects, enabling (www.apple.com), Apple's retail stores users to transform their iChat video in and Apple Authorized Resellers for a real time with fun distortion and suggested retail price of $129 (US) for effects; and video backdrops a single user license. The Mac OS X that allow users to choose any photo Leopard Family Pack is a single-resi or video that makes them appear to dence, five-user license that will be be anywhere in the world, or out of it; available for a suggested retail price of * Leopard iCal, introducing powerful $199 (US). Volume and maintenance group calendaring features based on pricing is available from Apple. the open CalDAV standard that make it easy to organize and coordinate *Copy of Windows XP or Vista schedules with other people; * Spaces, giving users a powerful new, required.

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