You’ve got computer problems?
I spent the day imaging 30 eMacs. It should have been easy. I planed on multi-cating the image using a 16 port switch I brought along for the job. Of course, it’s never as easy as planned and 15 of the eMacs couldn’t boot from CD because the kids had removed the drive belt from the CD-ROM drive /sigh. The good 15 I was able to multicast, but I had to slow it down to 4 meg because at 6 meg I was getting over 50% failure rate. When it fails you start over from scratch.
I used an HP switch, not my favorite. Maybe it’s a good switch, but I don’t like jet powered equipment. I know it’s jet powered because you can hear the two jets when you plug it in.
With the bad 15 I had to use the old firewire / target-mode / diskutilities / restore method. It’s tried and true, but painfully ‘me’ intensive. I got everything done in 5 ½ hours, which I’m happy about. I wasn’t looking forward to working Saturday on new years weekend.
I know that’s more eMac info than anybody could ever want to know. Lugging those danged eMacs around gets my back to aching, I missed lunch, no breakfast either, and I’m in a pissy mood. Ah, not pissy I guess. Just tuckered. I’m glad it’s done.