comp.sys.mac.advocacy

In article ,
Steve de Mena wrote:

> ZnU wrote:
> > In article ,
> > Steve de Mena wrote:
> >
> >> ZnU wrote:
> >>> In article <9sCdnRM7q5iZzXranZ2dnUVZ_o-mnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> >>> Steve de Mena wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> ZnU wrote:
> >>> [snip]
> >>>
> >>>> "In the case of NetInstall, the computer boots directly from the
> >>>> server, using Apple¹s NetBoot technology but launches into the Mac
> >>>> OS X installer application and overlays the computer¹s local hard
> >>>> drive with the disk image instead of loading the Mac OS X
> >>>> environment."
> >>> This is how NetInstall generally works. However, as Alan pointed
> >>> out, there's nothing preventing a competent OS X administrator from
> >>> creating a NetBoot image which, instead of re-imaging the entire
> >>> hard drive, does something totally different.
> >> Yes there is something preventing them from doing this - Apple's
> >> Image tools, which create OS X images, not "something else".
> >
> > Do you understand how Apple's remote imaging works? The remote system
> > boots off of a network disk image which is set up to, upon competition
> > of the boot process, launch a utility which clones a *different* image
> > to the machine's hard drive.
> >
> > You can modify a bootable network disk image to do something other than
> > launch that utility. Like, for instance, install packages.
>
> I have to see that. Are there any packages out there? Has anyone
> actually DONE it, or just read docs that tell you how to do it (by
> people whom we don't know if they have ever done it themselves).

So now you're down to quibbling. You won't actually admit that the docs
say what we've all been trying to tell you, so you resort to asking if
anyone has seen it.

>
> Why don't vendors or software developers provide their apps in this
> ready-to-deploy format, if it is so great? (I am thinking of VMWare,
> where you can download hundreds of ready-to-run images).

I don't know. But them not having done so doesn't mean it can't be done.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."