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Or use a Web Server
Authored by: allanmarcus on Mar 20, '09 11:23:22AM

If you image is on a Web server, just boot from the Install DVD, open Disk Utility, and use the Restore tab. Simply enter the URL into the Source box, drag the volume to restore to the destination box, hit the Erase Destination (will be much faster if you use Erase Destination).

Some assumptions:

1) You have DHCP in your network environment. The Install DVD can only get network if you have DHCP. We use small home routers (Like a DLink DI-604) to get DHCP where we don't have it.
2) You Web server needs to be able to serve a file as large as the image. You may need to tweak your apache conf file if you are using an older version of Apache.

Hope this helps.



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