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Macbook Air

  • January 4, 2011
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  • Anonymous

The Macbook Air does not have an Ethernet port, only two USB ports. Has anyone successfully performed High Volume imaging on Macbook Airs?

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Christopher A. DeNoia
Network Administrator
Pascack Valley Regional High School District
c/o Pascack Hills High School
225 W. Grand Ave.
Montvale, NJ 07645
Phone: (201) 358-7020 X2260
email: cdenoia at pascack.k12.nj.us http://www.pascack.k12.nj.us

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    • ernstcs
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    • January 4, 2011

    I think the answer is buy the Ethernet dongle? We don't have any.

    Craig E

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    • Anonymous
    • January 4, 2011

    I have experience with two 13" machines using a USB ethernet dongle (it was actually a HP one).

    The first one was fine. Worked no problem with a 10.6.4 image that was created with the release of the I7 macbooks. Only requirement was to install the 10.6.5 combo update and (maybe) leopard graphics update. Everything worked fine.
    The second one had a kernel panic while netbooting. I didn't look into it further since it didn't need an image and the windows IT guy wanted it ASAP.

    Everything was the same on the machines. No idea why the second one didn't netinstall properly.

    bentoms
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    • bentoms
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    • January 4, 2011

    we've 2 macbook airs' to 260+ macs.. & the issue we've had is with our build process.

    1. Base os is installed
    2. Install at reboot apps installed
    3. Setup script run.

    The problem is that we build our images on a MacPro & delete all nw ports except ethernet 1, meaning that after step 1.. (once the OS is installed & boots).. The Airs had no nw connection.

    Regards,
    Ben Toms
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    • Anonymous
    • January 5, 2011

    I guess the difference would be that I use an image of an install disk, not a previously run OS. That probably allows the network interface to be created properly at boot?

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    • Anonymous
    • February 25, 2011

    As anyone successfully created a NBI Set using a MacBook Air either then 11'' or 13''. I have been trying the Casper Netinstall creator, but I have been unsuccessful, and would like to hear if/how anyone has been successful in doing this.

    Karl H. Hehr
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