Chris Olson paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly: >Very true. I think it would take better than a day to do one with a >typical 1 Mbps cable internet connection anyway because it's not all >done in one big download. You boot the client with a NetBoot image >to get it running, then let it "discover" the upgrade image, which >installs the files on the client hard disk. On gigabit ethernet >it's about as fast as installing from CD/DVD. But on 100 Mbps >ethernet it's _considerably_ slower - two to three hours. And if >something times out it hoses the upgrade and makes the client >un-bootable from the local hard disk. You have to reboot from the >NetBoot image and start over. >-- >Chris Well, the 'local' idea has a lot of appeal over here. That's for sure. Someone, elsewhere, said that even putting a new Super or Combo internal drive in, even from Apple, wouldn't be a guaranteed boot drive. Or is that a 3rd-party issue, something about licensing, or was it just someone trying to make me feel worse about it all? ~flipper