On Sep 9, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:

> 
> On Sep 8, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Mugsy Lunsford wrote:
>> 
>> well, I've got 8 minis to play with, might as well try that even before 
>> knowing if the win7 partition will work. I wonder if it will honor the 
>> hidden recovery partition too? Hmm... Was thinking clonezilla might be the 
>> answer, but if I can do it with DU's restore, that would be much more 
>> elegant and painless. 
> 

ok, DU Restore just gives an error when I try to restore the whole drive, so 
I'm trying to come up with a way to use clonezilla off a USB flash drive. 
Mind-bogglingly frustrating when you have to boot into mac os to look up 
everything, then reboot to windows to try it. Today I found a "spare" monitor, 
kb and mouse on the desk of someone who's gone to a convention, so I can use 
one of the mac clones to check the net and avoid booting back and forth. 

> A bit of googling found this:
> 
> <http://web.mac.com/driley/iWeb/Dual-boot_Lab.html>
> 
> Lion Server is only $50....and if this is an ongoing lab situation, being 
> able to nuke&pave a classroom computer on command is a VERY handy thing to 
> do...

It's an on-going classroom, until they decide to change something again. I've 
got very limited resources here - literally, a room with a table, a chair, a 
wifi connection, an ethernet cable, 1 kb, 1 mouse and 9 minis. Until I went 
foraging, I had only one monitor. I'm switching the keyboard back and forth to 
boot them into target disc mode. Thanks for the link, I'll dig and see if 
there's anything I can use in these circumstances. Still no idea how to get 
around the network issues on win7; most of the hits I'm getting are from 
several years ago; nobody's apparently having network hardware recognition 
errors like this. This is a company I've supported for almost 20 years, so I 
used to be included in the decision process when rolling out a new set of 
classroom cpus, but they've got a new COO and there are some control issues 
embedded in the current org chart. :\

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