comp.sys.mac.advocacy

Tim Adams wrote:

> Yet Apple clearly implies that it is just that. Otherwise they wouldn't have
> written:
>
> "NetInstall isn¹t limited to full system software installations. Mac OS X Server
> enables you to host multiple installer images, so you can create disk images for
> different groups or containing different kinds of software. For example, one
> disk image may contain the latest versions of your organization¹s productivity
> applications and another may contain all the software required for a specific
> classroom or lab."

Nothing in that paragraph says it makes standalone application
software package installers. The end product created in the above
paragraph is a full image to deploy to a workstation, with an OS and
various selections of applications included.

>
> and they also wouldn't have written:
>
> "This allows any Mac OS X system on your network to be configured or updated
> quickly and easily."

I'll have to see one of these packages.

I have started to make one myself. I followed their steps and added a
"Safari 3.1" package to an OS X install, and unchecked the "OS X" part
(though the screens did not look like what the docs described them
as). It started to create an image, which was over SEVEN gigabytes
(for a 31 MB package). Then there were hard drive issues on my Mac
Mini OS X server and hours of "fsck -fy"s have rendered it useless. I
am booted to the backup Iomega 300GB FW400 attached to it and
SuperDuper'ing that image 1-2 months old back to the internal MiniMe
HD so I won't be able to redo the tests until tomorrow.

Steve