Sillyness First: a quiz!
So, this is going to be a Mac OS X tip in the form of a quiz... MacGyver style.
The Scenario
You have too craptastic TiBook's that you are in the process of wiping clean and reinstalling the OS on. One is just about to finish the install, and the other one is finishing up disk 1 or 4 disks.
As laptop 1 finishes, you notice a strange buzzing noise coming from the CD-ROM of laptop 2, and after some fiddling you realize that the CD-ROM has died. Laptop 2 is asking you to insert disk 2 of the install, but of course you can't now since the CD-ROM she be dead.
You have exactly 2 hours to get both of these machines ready for field deployment; there is not time or money for replacing the CD-ROM and there is no time to start the install over... you have to continue from where you left off.
Your resources
Apart from the two laptops you have an iSight and an iPod, and all the accessories that they would usually come with. The question now is, how do you finish the install on laptop 2?
This happened to me today, and by the time I left the office at 12:00 I had the OS on both laptops, ready to go. How did I do it?
Depending on a number of factors, there may be a prize for the winner...
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