PowerMac G5 Image across single, dual, and quad Processor Macs

Good Day,
Our organization is preparing to roll out Tiger. To streamline
this process we have decided to create images for each Mac family in
use. I know I need to find the newest possible model to create the
image but what is the rule for single, dual, and quad processor macs?
Can we use an image created on a quad processor PowerMac on the
dual/single processor PowerMacs?
Thanks

Macs of different models and vintages may take different restore disks. The disk image method of doing this kind of work may or may not work. Use the original disks when faced with different releases or different models. See this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25784
So a dual-single processor transfer will not necessarily work.
In addition, there are license agreement considerations.
I would not do it unless you know you are in the clear on both accounts.

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Allie,
Do get the Quad PPC and the next level up video card and AppleCare.
1: PCI-Express video cards are impossible to come by right now, so get one up from the stock version, you'll come to appreciate it later on. Adds to resale value.
2: ATI who makes video cards for Macs has been bought by AMD, a processor competitor to Intel. Who knows what the future is going to be on that.
3: AppleCare is mandatory, one year isn't enough to cover a investment of this sort unless you do plan to dump it before then. Still AppleCare is a added plus to selling if you do.
If you can get more RAM, more than 3-3.5GB, CS2 will do a amazing 40% more performance because it won't use the slow boot drive as a memory swap (aka "scratch") disk.
If your handy, or have someone nearby that is, you can buy the RAM at Crucial.com a heck of a lot cheaper than Apple.
If you really want more performance, I suggest getting a large stock drive that comes from Apple, and a 150GB 10,000 RPM SATA Western Digital 16MB Raptor and (Disk Utility Erase w/ Zero all new drives 1x first) and then install Tiger on the Raptor with all your space hogging files in new folders on the large stock drive. Keep the boot drive less than 50% filled.
You'll see a incredible snappiness to your OS as Mac OS X "feel" speed is highly dependent upon boot drive speed.
Your Quad's CPU's are powerful and they can crunch quite a bit, like a bulldozer that can move a lot of dirt. So you can do more at once. But large filled slow boot drives and low RAM just hobble them.
If you never cloned your boot drive before, you should learn how to do that too. (Don't clone a different machines OS to a new one though.) You'll need a external firewire 800/400 drive equal to or bigger than your boot drive.
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