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Roll your own Netboot server on Linux
It can't be denied; NetBoot is cool. Even though Apple's network startup technology is mostly aimed at big educational and corporate deployments, it can be helpful in a small gaggle of Macs as a tool for diagnostic boot or machine imaging. There's a ...
Universal OS X, NetBoot OS X, courtesy of MacOSXHints
Of all the people
who could create a Universal OS X boot disk (*cough* Apple *cough*), is anyone surprised that MacOSXHints (as
far as I know) got there first? Top it off with the fact that they also created a NetBoot image and, well... now
they're ...
Intel Mac Startup Key Combinations
Browsing through my bookmarks from last week, I found this list of startup key combinations for the Intel Macs.
Most of these are the same as their PPC brethren, and I don't know if the "D" one to boot into the Apple
Hardware Test is new or ...
The Good News for Mac Lab Admins
With the
release of new Intel Macs yesterday, the people who manage labs and classrooms full of Macs started asking
questions. Does this mean I need to have a PPC image for my PPC machines and an Intel image for my Intel
Macs? What about NetRestore ...
Mac OS X password recoverable from RAM?
In a recent post over at Ars Technica, they say that Mac OS X users could have their login passwords recovered through physically accessing the RAM. This comes after FileVault was proven to be cracked. The article notes that Mac OS X and certain ...
Apple II cluster computer
Eliot at your sister site Hack a Day has linked to a cluster computer built from Apple //e boards. Each of the eight boards in the "AppleCrate" cluster (purchased for $1 each) is netbooted by a separate, more equipped //e. What is it used ...
AI: 'Snow Leopard' to include rewritten Finder
AppleInsider claims that Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will feature (among other things) a Finder re-written entirely in Cocoa. The Finder has remained Carbon-based for the entire history of Mac OS X so far, but the long journey from those frameworks ...
Farewell to a friend: NetRestore goes EOL
Go on, I dare you -- name an individual who has done more to improve the lot of Mac OS X system administrators than Mr. Mike Bombich. Over the course of the past six years, while working both at educational institutions and as an Apple SE, Mike has ...
Creating a Bootable Restore DVD
Hacking the Mac OS X Installer DVD
I work at a university and we regularly get lots of new computers in that need to be imaged. Normally, people use a NetBoot server with NetRestore to do this, but our network is too clunky and poorly-designed to ...
The admin's freeware friend: DeployStudio
For individual Mac users or small businesses, it's usually not a problem deploying new Macs with a standard image -- as a Mac support specialist, you might just load each machine manually. But imagine if you need to deploy hundreds or thousands of ...
LANrev 5.0 adds power management to workstation admin tools
Managing the power consumption of your Macs just got a little easier with the latest version of the LANrev cross-platform client management tool. In the new 5.0 build, the headline feature is bright green: you can assign power saving preferences to ...
TUAW Tip: keyboard shortcuts during Mac OS X startup
For today's TUAW
Tip, I thought I'd cover some of the basic essentials for starting up your Mac, especially for recent switchers who feel
naked and lost without their BIOS. I compiled the list I have here from Magical Macintosh Key Sequences (which ...
Reader questions: Can you install XP via Remote Disk on a MacBook Air?
The MacBook Air's idiosyncratic approach to peripheral access and software installation has raised an interesting question: how to do OS installs? My assumption had been that you'll need the external DVD drive (or a NetBoot/NetInstall infrastructure) ...
