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Auto-run and Target HD - regex or variable matching?

  • June 14, 2011
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Hey,

I'm currently prepping for a big re-imaging project this summer for about 4000 MacBooks. To try to make this smoothing I'm testing the auto-run function, but have one slight problem...

Most of our computers HDs are named MacintoshHD, but some are Macintosh HD, with a smattering of other names as well. If I set MacintoshHD as the target drive name in Casper, those machines work, but others get an error. Is it possible to use some kind of variable so I can specify something like Macintosh%HD to catch BOTH MacintoshHD and Macintosh HD? We'd deal with the non-standard names individuallly, but at least this would catch most of our drives.

Any thoughts?

Jeff

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    • tlarkin
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    • June 14, 2011

    Jeff,

    Have you thought about a preflight script that renames the hard drive?

    #!/bin/bash

    for disk in `bless --getboot` ; do

    diskutil rename ${disk} "Macintosh HD"

    done

    exit 0

    Not tested just a quick example

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