comp.sys.mac.advocacy

In article ,
Steve de Mena wrote:

> Alan Baker wrote:
>
> >>>>> "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.
> >>> Which part of "or containing different kinds of software" didn't you
> >>> understand?
> >> I understood fully.
> >>
> >> Image A - "Engineers" - OS X 10.5.2, with Office 2007 for the Mac and
> >> VMWare Fusion
> >>
> >> Image B - "Graphic Artists" - OS X 10.5.2, with Office 2007 and Adobe
> >> Creative Suite CS3
> >>
> >> Image C - "Executive" - OS X 10.5.2, with Office 2007, Company
> >> Templates for Word, and iLife 08.
> >>
> >> The above are examples of what is meant by "enables you to host
> >> multiple installer images, so you can create disk images for different
> >> groups or containing different kinds of software."
> >>
> >> Steve
> >
> > I'm sorry, Steve, but you're wrong. Don't be like Edwin: just admit it
> > with a little grace and then move on.
>
> The above scenarios I described are "wrong"? Not at all. It says you
> can create multiple images and I described what 3 typical images could
> look like. This wasn't a trick question. It was perfectly obvious
> what they were describing.
>
> How is your image creating going? I anxiously await your Netinstall
> application image that I can test, instead of quoting PR data sheets.

It's done. But because a NetInstall image must perforce have an OS on
it, it's not going to fit on my website so easily.

>
> Can you tell me again about the new Apple graphics cards that are
> available for my Mac Pro?

No. I can tell you that Apple's offerings for the Mac Pro have changed.
Which is what you claimed hadn't happened.

--
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."