Re: Since Software Update Server won't satisfy...

In article <DP-dnd8WOoG-63vanZ2dnUVZ_rfinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tim Adams wrote:
In article <iPKdneRyx-SvWHjanZ2dnUVZ_q-jnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tim Adams wrote:
In article <c6ednQ23I5wqaXnanZ2dnUVZ_vOlnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan Baker wrote:
In article <7cmdnecxlN2eOHnanZ2dnUVZ_srinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan Baker wrote:
...how about NetInstall?

<http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/L355777B_NetInstall_TB.pdf


That is for installs of an entire startup partition (bare metal
installs or a complete wipe of what is there, replacing it with one of
the prepared images).

Looks like a great tool, for initial installs and rollouts, but not
designed or capable of adding packages to a system.

Steve
You're wrong...

...again.
Sorry, you'll need to provide the sentences/paragraphs from the
document you provided to show us where I am "wrong".
Try "Installing Software over the Network
When the installation disk image is configured, use the NetBoot pane in
Server
Admin to host it on the server. This allows any Mac OS X system on your
network
to be configured or updated quickly and easily." found on the top of page
4
from
the link Alan provided.
The "installation disk image" is an image of the entire startup
partition, OS X. Not a Photoshop package, or something like that.
(Blow up the graphic below also) "Configured" would be a brand new
install, "Updated" would be upgrading from one version of OS X to
another, for example.

Or upgrading any other package that might be installed on your computer.

In the next paragraph it talks about how these disk images can be
chosen as a "Startup" target, which you couldn't do with a software
package.

Key words - 'can be'.

Read the entire document over again, if you don't mind.

Yes Steve, Please do.

Steve


Tim, there is no way to update an installed copy of OS X, as this
whole Netinstall process runs outside of your running OS X.

Ummm...

Every Mac OS X installer CD runs outide your running OS X and yet one is
able to update your installed software with it...

--
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."
.

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