Using SIU can be a pretty good way of setting up a fresh system, providing users with an out of box experience. While the notes below are written and tested on Lion, i believe they would work equally well in Snow Leopard.
Some basic steps to use SIU for imaging Lion.
– Prepare a Lion installation CD
– Prepare all software that needs to be deployed into packages using PackageMaker Continue reading Using System Image Utility with Lion
There are times when you need to get a terminal window during system start up but the system must not be booted into a user environment. That is to say, that you want it to be in the root “x windows” session similar to the one that is launched when you just installed the Mac. Continue reading Getting a Terminal window on start up (X with root permissions)
Some times, you might get errors in your sinology and be unable to delete files. This is likely due to a corrupted filesystem which requires fixing. Continue reading How to FSCK your synology
I personally don’t really like and use Dashboard, so in effort to conserve RAM, i turn it off. Here is how i did it in Lion
$ defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
$ killall Dock