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Old 05-29-2007, 09:51 AM
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Help! I have 19 macs to upgrade...ugh

I'm not sure what to say in my current state of panic...We have 19 macs - only one of which is an Intel machine. Several G5s, but mostly G4s. A few are running 10.4.8, others are at 10.3.9.

Does anybody have any idea how long the PowerPC will be supported? If I bring all the macs up to Tiger and get CS3 and Quark, do I need to get more Ram - currently all are at 1 - 1.5 Gb.

We are currently in an 'upgrade freeze', so I'm wondering how long I have to upgrade and can't find any answers. I've always gotten a lot of help here - surely one of you knows......

Thanks in advance!
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Old 05-29-2007, 01:25 PM
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With differing processors you will need to make two different clones...

Here's what I'd do, here's what I actually do...

On one Mac that's PPC, you build an install that is rock solid, all the apps, updates, utilities etc.

One one Mac that's an ICBM (Intel Chip Base Mac - just my little joke) build another rock solid install. The only real difference will be OS and updates, most applications will be universal, so that bit should just be the same install. I realise you only have one ICBM.

Once you have that sorted you hopefully have an external Hard Drive handy...

Partition it it equally, and then clone the install from a PPC onto one partition and then clone the ICBM install.

For this you will need something like Carbon Copy Cloner - http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

Then connect the external to each Mac in turn, hopefully via Firewire. Restart each mach with the drive attached and hold don the 'alt key' this will force the Mac to look for any available boot partition. Once the Mac stops looking select the drive with the relevant build on it and start up from that. Once booted, launch Carbon Copy Cloner again and clone in the the other direction from the external to the machine.

This will overwrite anything on the machine you're cloning to. Back up personal files or anything stored locally.

With this method you should be able to update all the machines in a relatively short space of time without disrupting production too much. Less than a day after you've got a good install to clone from
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Old 05-29-2007, 03:35 PM
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Then connect the external to each Mac in turn, hopefully via Firewire.
If I remember correctly it has to be via Firewire. I don't think you can even clone to a
USB drive. Maybe something's changed since I've done this though.
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Yeah it can only be Firewire, cheers Tom
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Old 05-30-2007, 07:33 AM
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Keep this in mind.
CS3 will NOT run on 10.3.x
Quack 7.x will NOT run on 10.3.x
CS3 is written to run on Intel natively, it will work on a G5 and G4 (slowly) but requires a minimum of OS 10.4 to operate.
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Old 05-31-2007, 01:31 AM
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Great posts. And thanks Sparky. Had almost forgotten this obvious fact. It'll throw the cat amongst the pigeons in our setup when the time comes. Better make a call to our Parent [publishing/creative] End. Wouldn't surprise me if they'd done an upgrade to 10.4.x and not told us; in prep for CS3. keep hearing rumours, but nobody thinks to let you know. Same everywhere, I guess. Mutter, mutter... :x
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