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February 16, 2008

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10.5.2 includes the ability to Remote Install Mac OS X

Posted Feb. 16, ’08, 11:00 AM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | Software » Updates

Remote Install Mac OS X iconAs slick and thin as the new MacBook Air might be, it still needs the help of its comparatively obese brethren when it needs an operating system upgrade or even just an “Archive and Install”. Therefore, included with the recently released Mac OS X v10.5.2 update was a new utility to enable you to Remote Install Mac OS X (found under /Applications/Utilities) on a MacBook Air.

The tiny utility asks you to insert a Mac OS X install disc in the optical drive and then follow the simple setup and installation steps. Sounds easy and, hopefully, works well.

So there you have it. If you are the owner of a MacBook Air, all your other Leopard based Macs are ready to wirelessly come to the rescue should your brand new notebook start acting up.

If any of you decide to use it, let us know how well it goes. We do hope though that you don’t need to use it so soon. Some utilities are better left under-utilized.

[Via Appletell]


2 Comments

bollar said:

I did this out of the box so that I could have a clean installation without languages and printer drivers plus the iLife applications, like Garage Band I'd never use.

Worked without a problem.

February 16, 2008 11:38 AM
Walt Author Profile Page said:

But wait... you older siblings at the mothership practically declared this was to be a "only" computer. Not a secondary one. So those folks gain no advantage because they don't have a main computer to remote install from. The Air *is* their main computer. Oh well. Stupid me.

;-)

February 16, 2008 2:08 PM

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