[UniMacTech] New MacBooks and Firewire

[Tom Kalikajaros]

Allan,

The new models generally sport a CPU package on top of System of the day. 

Best to recreate your netboot image using new laptop and replace copy at server. This way you get all the new CPU specific bits that address new models. 

Tom

..sent from BlackBerry. 

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Sent: Tue Nov 18 17:35:41 2008
Subject: Re: [UniMacTech] New MacBooks and Firewire

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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