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  • 1.  Ghosting Mac G5 computers

    Posted Apr 05, 2007 11:58 AM
    Is there a solution to clone Mac G5's using Ghost ver 8? I do not want to have to do a disk clone 1 at a time.
    Thanks
    Todd


  • 2.  RE: Ghosting Mac G5 computers

    Posted Apr 06, 2007 02:56 AM
    Nope, no Mac support at present, although I have to say that this is really the first customer interest I've seen in it (except to deal with Windows XP on the Intel-based Macs). It's certainly something we're open to in principle, but thus far I don't think it's really on Product Management's radar.


  • 3.  RE: Ghosting Mac G5 computers

    Posted Apr 06, 2007 09:41 AM
    That is to bad, we are a college and are having time issues with the 1 clone at a time method of using carbon copy cloner. I think we will need to experiment, I do nto see why if we can make a ghost boot disk using the Mac NIC card that we still could not use Ghost. All we are doing is copying the disk data. Then send that to a network storage location and the pull it back to other Mac's. We would not have to run sysprep. Sounds like a experiment for next week.
     
    Thanks
    Todd


  • 4.  RE: Ghosting Mac G5 computers

    Posted Apr 06, 2007 10:13 AM
    Per Nigel Bree's comments "(except to deal with Windows XP on the Intel-based Macs)"
     
    Actually we just recieved a bunch of Intel-based Mac Laptops, now I want to state I'm not a "Mac Guy" but we wanted to setup the Macs to dual boot to Mac OSx and our Windows XP image so I thought I'd give it a try. We setup Mac OSx, and used the tools included to setup the second partition for Windows XP. At one phase it ask to insert Windows CD and it reboots. I just put in our bootable Ghost cd with the Yukon drivers, and it rebooted and connected to our Ghosting Server and recieved the image without a problem. 

    Message Edited by Jimmy C on 04-06-200707:20 AM

    Message Edited by Jimmy C on 04-06-200707:20 AM



  • 5.  RE: Ghosting Mac G5 computers

    Posted Apr 25, 2007 11:33 AM
    You can ghost a mac with the raw switch enabled it just makes an enormous image because even empty space is cloned.
     
    We currently have bartpe booting on the mac and connecting to a static ghostcast session that deploys an image that is a dual boot of Mac OSX and Windows XP.