USE CASE: Supporting a grade school Mac lab and am trying to make a consistent load for all of the iMacs (G3, Indigo, 500MB RAM), with OS 10.4 and OS 9.2.1
PROCESS: I followed the recommendations in *How to Clone Mac OS X to a New Hard Drive * <http://lowendmac.com/ed/royal/08sr/clone-mac-os-x.html>, using Carbon Copy Cloner instead of SuperDuper. To simplify this operation, I connected the target iMac to the source machine using a firewire cable, and starting it in [T]arget disk mode. RESULT: The transfer went very well, however, when I disconnected the two machines and tried to boot the target iMac, the gray OSX startup screen came up briefly, then a black square ~2" x 3" popped up on the screen and the computer shut down. <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-vNOOzrAa8RY/UC26bX9ykbI/AAAAAAAAHWc/rX772h0uRmo/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-08-16+at+10.27.10+PM.png> *When this has happened in the past, I started up from a OSX install disk and re-installed the OS.* This time, I tried booting in Safe Mode (hold Shift after chime, and release at gray apple), and the computer booted up, starting me at a user selection/login screen. When in Safe Mode, I ran Disk Utility and confirmed permissions were OK. I also reset PRAM on the next restart. Still, the computer either gave the black warning screen, or just went dark and shut off. Any other suggestions? I would rather not re-install from scratch on every computer, plus I like the advantage of having the same 'student' and 'admin' user accounts on every iMac in the lab. Many thanks! -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
