Sec. Gen Macbook not accepting our enterprise OSX image.

[FDF12389]

Hi, my company has a .dmg image we use to image all of our macbook pros. I just purchased five new macbook pros and would like to continue using the same image rather than creating a new one. I'm assuming the reason its crashing is because we created the image from a first gen macbook pro and are now trying to put it on a second gen macbook pro. Is there anything I can do besides making a new image?

Please excuse my Mac ignorance, I'm just starting to use and try to get the hang of apple products. Thanks.

 

[TheStu]

So you have an image from Core Duo MacBook Pros and are trying to use it on Core 2 MacBook Pros... I would have thought that would work... especially since most everything else is the same (different processors, different chipsets, different wireless) but I guess not.

It is looking like you will have to make a new image, sorry. And make sure you label them, Core Duo Tiger Image, Core 2 Duo Tiger Image.

 

[FDF12389]

What if I imaged an external drive with our old image and pointed apple's transfer information wizard to that external drive. Would it pull all the apps and sys preferences we had on the old image?

 

[TheStu]

Yes it should. And then from there you can image the new MacBook Pro so that it at least matches the older image.

 

[FDF12389]

Originally posted by: TheStu
Yes it should. And then from there you can image the new MacBook Pro so that it at least matches the older image.

Awesome. Thank you for your help.

 

[Tegeril]

Different chipsets can sometimes be handled by an OS but I think in this case, the original problem will have stemmed from the x1600 to 8600gt switch between the two systems or the processor switch.

 

[RichieZ]

Originally posted by: FDF12389
What if I imaged an external drive with our old image and pointed apple's transfer information wizard to that external drive. Would it pull all the apps and sys preferences we had on the old image?

Yes it will work. I used superduper to backup my boot drive to an external firewire drive before I did a fresh install of Leopard. Migration assistant picked it up as if it was another Mac and trasnfsred all my apps/settings