My suggestion is to offer Windows as a VM using Parallels or VBox if you want both Mac OS X and Windows on these boxes. It's way easier to maintain and setup. Easier to blow away and replace with a new VM image. If you have a fast network, you can even host the VM image on a server and always keep it up to date with the latest security updates, etc.
The hybrid MBR Apple creates to support Windows and Mac OS X is a non-standard, nasty little creation that arguably violates the UEFI spec, and certainly departs from Apple's own tech note on their usage. Do not use any Windows resizing or partitioning utilities ever, or you will experience data loss either on the Windows or Mac OS volumes, or both. For native booting, another way to clone is to use dd. If you create a reference computer, and all computers have the same or slightly larger disks, you can use dd to image the entire disk: boot loader, MBR, GPT, all partitions, to a .img or .bin file, and then again use dd to image all subsequent disks. Naturally when you start using dd, none of the volumes on that disk can be mounted or the dd operation is invalid. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
