[Casper] Dual booting Macbooks!!!!

[Tom Welch]

Hi Thomas

Could you possibly look at using parallels? I know there is an extra  
cost but it would be very easy to push out with Casper. Then you could  
either deploy the virtual hd image or a virtual cd image pointing  
towards a ghost server to image the virtual machine. And if your  
developer is paying :p

I also think you might be able to use apple's net install to deploy  
bootcamp. But it might just be the partition. I've not fully looked  
into it.

Good luck!
-- 
Many Thanks
Tom Welch

On 30 Jun 2008, at 18:45, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

> Guess I should clarify....
>
> The old mac version corrupts the database files on intel macs.  The  
> windows version works with out a hitch, hence the need to load  
> windows clients on the macs...
>
> Sorry Should have pointed that out to begin with.
>
> Thomas Larkin
> TIS Department
> KCKPS USD500
> tlarki at kckps.org
> cell:  913-449-7589
> office:  913-627-0351
>>>> "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> 06/30/08 12:36 PM >>>
> The problem is with this software to my knowledge is that it is  
> based on older PPC and classic architecture and while it does in  
> fact run under Rosetta when it writes results to their database it  
> corrupts it.  This is a problem particular to OS X so I think that  
> using a PPC emulator or even an API like crossover or perhaps even a  
> virtual machine will all be moot.  We have unlimited windows 98  
> client and I am installing a virtual machine of it right now via  
> virtual box.
>
> We can't pick up a new product because there is no way to migrate  
> the database to another technology.  The developer says they promise  
> a web based product by 2009, but what does that mean?  All it means  
> to me is that this next school year I will be forced to do whatever  
> it takes to get this software to work.
>
> This is a known issue and is why the developer offered to pay 90% of  
> our one year lease costs of WinXP Pro on 6,000 clients.
>
> I have done this before in iMac labs with Bombich's software and the  
> boot camp beta, and it all worked.  However, the 1:1 laptop  
> environment is a bit different.  After I get everything up and  
> running I got to make sure the machine is still locked down on both  
> sides since our students take their machines home, and because the  
> FCC and CIPA require us to filter their Internet surfing.
>
> This will be a project indeed.
>
> Thomas Larkin
> TIS Department
> KCKPS USD500
> tlarki at kckps.org
> cell:  913-449-7589
> office:  913-627-0351
>>>> "Smith, William" <william.smith at merrillcorp.com> 06/30/08 12:24  
>>>> PM >>>
> On 6/30/08 12:14 PM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:
>
>> Due to powers that be it looks like I must load Windows on all of  
>> our Macbooks
>> for one piece of software.  This is a critical piece of software  
>> that our
>> users need and there is no alternative, for a long story short.   
>> So, the
>> software company that is in question is offering to pay for 90% of  
>> the costs
>> for windows licenses for one year until they migrate their product  
>> to a web
>> based one.
>
> Any possibility at all that this could work in CrossOver Mac? I know  
> not
> every Windows application works but if it does work for your  
> application
> then it means less overhead.
>
> -- 
>
> bill
>
> William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
> MCS IT
> Merrill Communications, LLC
> (651) 632-1492
>
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