Classroom Computers during Summer - reimage hard drive Macintosh

Do you ever wonder what happens to the classroom computers during summer vacation? Well, I have to wipe/erase the hard drive and reimage the hard drive with the up to date operating system, complete with anti-virus and latest applications and system updates.

I am a teacher and computer technician working in the San Francisco Bay area. One of the classes I teach is A+ Comptia computer repair certification.

In this video I am working to re-image the Mac computers in 30 classrooms, so this is how I get to spend the summer vacation. I hope the students appreciate this. First we need to install everything on one Mac, and then make an image copy of the hard drive, which is then put on the server which feeds the copy of the image over the network to the client computers. Once the copy is completed, the client reboots with the new image. We just need to set the computer name to each one so they can be identified over the network properly.

As you can see our campus is a Macintosh computer campus. Depending on the grade level, some of the computers have Parallels installed with Windows XP, so they can run OS X or XP as they wish.

This summer we are adding over 200 NEW iMacs and giving the teachers NEW Macbooks. Reimaging the hard drive for the new computers has already been completed, so we just need to finish the existing "old" computers.

In addition to the update on the operating system, we are upgrading our firewall and network to gigabyte speed and installing new wireless AP devices so students can access the internet securely and with quick connection speeds. We also have multiple Mac Xservers for Mac services.


To reimage the clients over the network lookup netboot deployment:
System Imaging and Software Update Administration
http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/System_Imaging_and_SW_Update_Admin...
http://www.macgeekery.com/hacks/hardware/make_any_mac_a_netboot_server also
http://beta.redes-linux.com/otros_sistemas_english/macosx/L21952A_NetInstall_...


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[Burthop]

0:01& 0:35, Notice the macintosh clasic! i diddnt know if he said it becuae i got know sound

[reeko14]

my school has 17 macbooks in each 6-8th grade class

[bigjake52]

@nuccastolemahhyoshi My g4s netboot fine, I have three g3s that will not netbot at all, my I have two imac g3s that will netboot, and two ibooks that will aswell, then I have two tray loadres that do fuck all \

[nuccastolemahhyoshi]

@bigjake52 y do u need a g3?? it took me 3 hours to get the netboot setup for ppc macs lol didnt know u had to make the netboot set on a ppc mac to make it work with ppc netbootin but i finally got it!! if u need it i can make the netboot set for u. i needed it since im runnin osx server on my 2011 mb pro.

[bigjake52]

@nuccastolemahhyoshi the ones in the video are g4 the lamps I need a g3 imac to netboot

[nuccastolemahhyoshi]

@bigjake52 those r g3 imacs.

[bigjake52]

hey how the hell do you get old g3 imacs to netboot

[777888555444]

Get a bunch of PCs. Macs are overpriced and hard if not impossible to upgrade.

[appleeimac]

@Burthop i thought it was a mac plus, 128k

[parrott116]

My school is getting an iPad computer lab

[lilbiGpena]

every single kid at my middle school gets there own netbook and we get to keep them and there gunna keep doing this for ever

[spairpartsdealer]

@mclmatty Mac = easy to use PC = extremely hard to use Mac = more advanced in every way PC = still running off of 32 and 64 bit Mac = slim to none chance of getting a virus PC = atleast 1000 within the first month Mac = faster and sleeker PC = slow as hell because microsoft is so cheap they can't even afford good harddrives Mac = iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, MacPro and others PC = Windows Phone, Netbook, and others Mac = Updates every 6-11 months PC = Updates every 2-5 yrs Mac wins! :|>