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Classroom Computers during Summer - reimage hard drive Macintosh

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Do you ever wonder what happens to the classroom computers during summer vacation? Well, I have to wipe/erase the hard drive and reimage the hard drive with the up to date operating system, complete with anti-virus and latest applications and system updates. I am a teacher and computer technician working in the San Francisco Bay area. One of the classes I teach is A+ Comptia computer repair certification. In this video I am working to re-image the Mac computers in 30 classrooms, so this is how I get to spend the summer vacation. I hope the students appreciate this. First we need to install everything on one Mac, and then make an image copy of the hard drive, which is then put on the server which feeds the copy of the image over the network to the client computers. Once the copy is completed, the client reboots with the new image. We just need to set the computer name to each one so they can be identified over the network properly. As you can see our campus is a Macintosh computer campus. Depending on the grade level, some of the computers have Parallels installed with Windows XP, so they can run OS X or XP as they wish. This summer we are adding over 200 NEW iMacs and giving the teachers NEW Macbooks. Reimaging the hard drive for the new computers has already been completed, so we just need to finish the existing "old" computers. In addition to the update on the operating system, we are upgrading our firewall and network to gigabyte speed and installing new wireless AP devices so students can access the internet securely and with quick connection speeds. We also have multiple Mac Xservers for Mac services. To reimage the clients over the network lookup netboot deployment: System Imaging and Software Update Administration http://images.apple.com/server... http://www.macgeekery.com/hack... also http://beta.redes-linux.com/ot... Please subscribe now to see more videos like this one.

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: egmilian

Length: 01:20
Rating: 4.80
Views: 1629

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kevinator231 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
did you make a disk image and put it on a xserve. cause me and my teacher did this over the summer. you just make an image. create it. then we put it on a xserve on the network and reimaged a whole buncha macbooks
Daniel55556 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
fuckin mac
teeangle (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
not really i'm saying it would be easier because all you need is one disk in one big machine and then install the os one at a time into each imac ... so the benefit is the ability to have one good fast optical drive and not change the disk around to 20 or 30 computers
Minimum91 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
That would probably the easiest way, but then I got to get a lot of FireWire Cables.
teeangle (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
wow that guy is weird but to do that it think it might be easiest to go into firewire target disk mode and install all of the OS's from there but i don't really know
teeangle (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
when i worked at my school over the summer all the IT guys loved pc making me the only mac guy there but it didn't really matter though, i got the last word in because i was on the cleaning crew and when we cleaned the computer room ... just about every network jack was unplugged and ever computer was not in the right place so haha to them btw there was a bout 25-30 computers in there so a little bit of a headache
Minimum91 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Why not? WTF? You just said something opposite to what you said before.
burkjt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Because that is not a question that a IT should be asking.
Minimum91 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I am Kind of. And why the hell is my comment rated down two times???
burkjt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Sounds like a question that an IT should be asking.

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