[UniMacTech] New MacBooks and Firewire

[Allan Gadsby]

Has anyone been able to boot the new Macbooks from a netinstall image? I've
tried 2 and it boots to the World icon then reboots back to the hard drive
on both. I just tried to boot to a USB hard drive O/S and it did the same.
Just wondering if they need a particular image to boot from. I can boot my
old white MacBook no worries.
Cheers
Al
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> From: Kris Kopicki <krisk at walford.asn.au>
> Reply-To: University Macintosh Technical Mailing List <unimactech at auc.edu.au>
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:17:39 +1030
> To: University Macintosh Technical Mailing List <unimactech at auc.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [UniMacTech] New MacBooks and Firewire
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> No, that was with the previous model Macbook, as our delivery hasn't
> arrived yet. The same results were observed on a recent Mac Pro.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kris
> 
> On 12/11/2008, at 3:55 PM, Alex Dawson wrote:
> 
>> Is this with the new Macbooks? I have heard there are some speed
>> improvements for USB2 implementation on there..
>> 
>> On 12/11/2008, at 9:05 AM, Kris Kopicki wrote:
>>>> 
>>> As someone has already mentioned, you can still do this with USB
>>> drive enclosures, however depending on the size of the SOE you are
>>> restoring, it may add significantly to your time. We did some
>>> testing with one of the new 500GB LaCie Rugged cases, just to see
>>> how bad USB2 really is:
>>> 
>>> FW800: 52MB/sec
>>> FW400: 32MB/sec
>>> USB2: 24MB/sec
>>> 
>>> So as you can see you take quite a speed hit for USB2, which you'll
>>> really notice if you are restoring 15GB dmg's like we do. The
>>> better way to be doing this is with Netboot/NetRestore. You can't
>>> beat the performance of Gigabit ethernet. We can restore a 15GB SOE
>>> to an iMac in 14 minutes (with verification). Of course if you're
>>> machines don't have access to ethernet, then USB is your only option.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alex Dawson
>> IT Manager (Acting) FAHSS Faculty Computing,
>> 08 6488 7093 - alex.dawson at uwa.edu.au - http://uwa.edu.au/people/alex.dawson
>> University of Western Australia (CRICOS 00126G)
>> 
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