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- From: wca0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Konsultant Cody A)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
- Subject: Re: Use of external HD to setup multiple new Mac's/PC's ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.122137.107209@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 12:21:37 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 40
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- In article <87026@netnews.upenn.edu>, jensen@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Christopher Jens
- en) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >For many of our new installations of Mac's and PC's, we install
- >the same core system software (System 7.x, Dos 5, Windows 3.1, etc)
- >and the same fonts, and the same network card drivers for the respective
- >machines.
- >
- >Be it mac or pc, we end up installing multiple megabytes of the same
- >software from floppies, answer the same install questions, and then
- >juggle floppies until the basic installation is complete.
- >
-
- [...]
-
- >Questions:
- >
- >Can any one suggest some techniques to improve the efficiency
- >of setting up multiple machines ?
- >
- [...]
- >
- >--Christopher Jensen
- > University of Pennsylvania
- > Jensen@Ben.Dev.Upenn.Edu
-
-
- You may have already considered this already, but is Novell NetWare (v3.11)
- totally out of the question? We have a massive conglomeration of MacII's and
- PC's (8088-486's) on our staff LAN here...the only thing that is really a
- bummer is the price of NetWare...we can run MAC and PC software off of it.
-
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