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Old 5th Apr 2008, 02:22
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the macbook airs dont even have a cd drive!! only 1 usb port!
i know there is no optical drive, but I think the Remote Disk feature is quite cool to use the drive of another OS X or Windows computer. Not so handy if you're using the Air as your primary and only computer though

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Old 8th Apr 2008, 06:23
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i know there is no optical drive, but I think the Remote Disk feature is quite cool to use the drive of another OS X or Windows computer. Not so handy if you're using the Air as your primary and only computer though
Gee, isn't that just like sharing a CD/DVD drive in Windoze? Can you boot from a remote CD drive?
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Old 8th Apr 2008, 07:26
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nope lol
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Old 8th Apr 2008, 07:56
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nope lol
Then all you can do is share a drive on one PC and map it on another? Excuse my ignorance, but isn't the Mac based on X-Windows, which is Unix, which has been doing that sort of thing for years? (And Windoze has for not quite so many years?)
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Old 8th Apr 2008, 08:07
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Mac is based on unix... you have always been able to boot from a remote location on Mac even before this remotedisk feature
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Old 8th Apr 2008, 08:43
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technically mac isnt based on unix but it follows the same fundamental philosophy, mac is actually a bsd derivative
also would you like to tell me how you can boot from a remote location when booting from anything other than the os means you cant acess the remove boot software
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technically mac isnt based on unix but it follows the same fundamental philosophy, mac is actually a bsd derivative
also would you like to tell me how you can boot from a remote location when booting from anything other than the os means you cant acess the remove boot software
Sorry, are you talking Linux now? Like booting from an image in another location on your network? Google "Linux Remote Boot".

It can be done with Windoze too using a boot chip on the network card.
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Old 8th Apr 2008, 09:20
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Isn't it funny how convos can stem from the simplest of things.
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Old 8th Apr 2008, 09:43
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Isn't it funny how convos can stem from the simplest of things.
I know! And the title and thread are now completely irrelevant.

OK:

Use remote boot at bootup
set up a server which responds to a remote boot request and configures the IP address and passes on the IP of a server providing the linux boot image via FTP
off it goes!
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Mcbook has never tasted so good.
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