Re: How do you clone a Mac?

Randy Howard <randyhoward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> rogacasa@xxxxxxxxx wrote
> (in article
> <1127921846.880734.106930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
> > Hi. I'm not sure of the proper terminology, but I want to create a disk
> > image of my current OS setup (10.4.2, Apple updates, personal
> > configuration settings and preferences, 3rd party applications, etc.)
> > that I can use to clone another Mac on my network. I want setting up
> > another Mac to be just a matter of formatting its drive and pushing
> > this aforementioned "image" on to it. How is this done in the Mac
> > world?
>
> That's a really good question. It would be interesting to
> discover something like an "Altiris" product for the Mac.

This capacity is already present on your machine. It's called Software
Restore. Read the man page on "asr". You can do almost the whole thing
using Disk Utility. m.

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