The last time we visited this topic, I thought we were done. Well, turns out I was wrong. Things are, for the most part, working well now. Finally. We’re running Tiger and we’ve managed to iron out the bulk of the problems. There is one issue which has persisted, however: the home account RAID. To [...]
Take it as a symbol of my incompetence. Take it as a sign of the inherent difficulties in unifying any highly cross-platform environment. Take it as an indication that major OS updates in said environments are often far more difficult than you might have ever guessed. Take it for what you will. I’m just happy [...]
Well, when last we visited this issue, we were having problems saving, among other things, Final Cut Pro files. After working long and hard with the Panasas folks, I was confident I’d found a solution. And I had, but the solution has created new problems. I want to kill Apple for Tiger. To refresh, the [...]
Boy have we got troubles. Sure I tested everything. Sure I did everything I could to make sure this upgrade went smoothly. But does that ever matter? No. It doesn’t. Everything tested out fine. Tiger was able, from day one, to mount our NFS home account server — a network RAID known as the Panasas. [...]
Well, we’re getting close. We’re down to last, wiggly-niggly little tidbits. Here’s where we’ve been in the last few weeks: The Master SystemWe have completed a very nice build of Tiger with most of the software we need on all machines, though we’re lacking all the most recent Adobe stuff due to not having received [...]
So this is the part of this epic in which I build what I call the “Base Config” or “BC.” The idea behind the BC is simple, really: Build a machine that’s got it all (well, almost all), from which all subsequent machines in the lab can be cloned. Building the BC is always a [...]
I’ve been building my Master Tiger system. Actually, it’s built, and I’ve been testing it. And I was going to make it my Radmind Master Client, but I’ve since scrapped my Radmind plans altogether. So fine. It’s now just a matter of uninstalling Radmind from the Master and testing it and making sure all is [...]
Here’s an interesting little gotcha. Not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing yet. Probably bad. In our lab, home accounts are on a server. Or, more accurately, they’re on an NFS mount that is shared from a network RAID. The way this works is fairly simple, but kind of tricky. The [...]
Okay. So, Tiger client is working. Moreover, Tiger client seems to work with my Panther Mac Server. And I have a backup disk image of my working Tiger install, should anything go amiss. Time to start setting up Radmind. The Logic:I have about thirty Mac systems to maintain in a lab set up for art [...]
As foretold, I’ve rebuilt my admin machine with fresh-from-the-factory Tiger. Nice. Things are going well. I’m testing right now. Partly, I’m testing how Tiger does from a clean install. I’m also testing its interaction with my Panther Server. So far I have hit one, minor snag here, and it appears to be a bug in [...]