AutoCasperNBI and Casper 9.65

try changing the name of your internal hard drive from Macintosh HD to something else.
it looks like its getting confused with the hard drive names

@calumhunter No same result, even choosing another volume as the destination gives the same results in the log.

This concerns me "We need around -1344GB free to create the NBI", considering the image is really only 17GB.

can you post the output from these commands on the machine you are using to try to create the nbi on?

ls -la /Volumes

diskutil list

@calumhunter After quitting AutocasperNBI to make sure no extra volumes are not mounted, tried again with the same result. readout from the terminal commands:

ls -la /Volumes
total 8
drwxrwxrwt@ 7 root admin 238 26 Feb 13:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 32 root wheel 1156 10 Feb 10:17 ..
drwxrwxr-x 14 root wheel 544 11 Feb 08:45 Backup
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 26 Feb 13:10 Fusion -> /
drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 918 2 Feb 16:01 Macintosh HD
drwxrwxrwx 0 root wheel 0 26 Feb 13:13 MobileBackups
drwxrwxr-x 25 dwikeley staff 918 10 Feb 13:35 UTAS

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_CoreStorage 121.0 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1 2: Apple_CoreStorage 999.3 GB disk1s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
/dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_HFS Fusion *1.1 TB disk2 Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2 B83630B9-8B92-42FE-84A6-32AC21C081A6 Unencrypted Fusion Drive
/dev/disk3 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk3 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1 2: Apple_HFS Backup 1.0 TB disk3s2 3: Apple_HFS UTAS 999.7 GB disk3s3
/dev/disk4 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *17.4 GB disk4 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk4s1 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 17.0 GB disk4s2

So what is the /dev/disk4 17Gb partition called Macintosh HD??

also try to use the script brackets when posting output like that so it retains its formatting, makes it easier to read

@dmw3 can you please open an issue at: https://github.com/macmule/AutoCasperNBI/issues.

I have only received some fusion drive macs over the past two weeks, so it may be that that has caused the issue & if so I can test with them.

nvm.. issue created: https://github.com/macmule/AutoCasperNBI/issues/18

@dmw3, well I thought the issue could be to do with the Fusion drive. So ran AutoCasperNBI on a fusion Mac Mini & it worked fine:

Sat Feb 28 21:35:51 GMT 2015 Selected path to create .nbi is: /Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/
Sat Feb 28 21:35:51 GMT 2015 Trying to get the Total size of '/Volumes/Macintosh HD 1'
Sat Feb 28 21:35:51 GMT 2015 Total size of '/Volumes/Macintosh HD 1' is 34GB rounded up
Sat Feb 28 21:35:51 GMT 2015 There is around 25GB space free on '/Volumes/Macintosh HD 1' rounded down
Sat Feb 28 21:35:52 GMT 2015 Used space on '/Volumes/Macintosh HD 1' is around 9GB
Sat Feb 28 21:35:52 GMT 2015 The NetBoot.dmg will need to be around 10GB
Sat Feb 28 21:35:52 GMT 2015 Checking for free space on /
Sat Feb 28 21:35:52 GMT 2015 The volume / has 906GB free, rounding down
Sat Feb 28 21:35:52 GMT 2015 We need around 10GB free to create the NBI.
Sat Feb 28 21:35:52 GMT 2015 Trying to create .nbi folder /Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/10.9.5TEST.nbi
Sat Feb 28 21:35:52 GMT 2015 Successfully created '/Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/10.9.5TEST.nbi'
Sat Feb 28 21:35:53 GMT 2015 Trying to create NetBoot.dmg in /Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/10.9.5TEST.nbi

@dmw3, how big is the OS.dmg you creating the NBI from?

Somewhere things are getting confused.

Thu Feb 26 10:55:27 AEDT 2015 Total size of '/Volumes/Macintosh HD 2' is 17GB rounded up
Thu Feb 26 10:55:27 AEDT 2015 There is around 690GB space free on '/Volumes/Macintosh HD 2' rounded down

Lastly, what language is the Mac set to?

@bentoms Thanks Ben for your reply. The image size is 13.88GB (reading as 17GB by AutoCasperNBI), the language is set to Australian.

I have tried this on two computers now and get the same result, it does not seem an issue with the Fusion drive as I tried it on a MBP with a SSD. This image was captured from a Mac Mini new with just Apple updates applied and an admin account created.

I can use the image ok with Disk Utility and Target Disk mode to another Mac.

Is there a way to force the creation disregarding the size check?

@dmw3, i'm not going to remove the space check as that will cause more issues & affect more people.

Could you post a copy of the com.macmule.AutoCasperNBI.plist & the log found in ~/Logs/AutoCasperNBI/ to the issue on GitHub? https://github.com/macmule/AutoCasperNBI/issues/18

Also, can I please have the output of diskutil info from it pointing to the image whilst mounted?

@dmw3, I'm working on the next release of AutoCasperNBI.. If you could supply me the above I'll try & fix it.

I have a suspicion that it's the OS.dmg you're using.

@bentoms I have been on leave the last couple of days and will post the returns of your questions when I get into work tomorrow.

Sometimes it makes it difficult being the other side of the world.

Would also suggest trying to use AutoDMG to create a never-booted up-to-date base OS and feed it to AutoCasperNBI If that works it will just validate @bentoms' suspicions that there is something awry with your base OS.

@RobertHammen I managed to speak to @dmw3 on the #jamfnation IRC.

Issue is that the DMG has 690MB free & AutoCasperNBI was reading the space as 690GB.

Should be fixed in next commit.

@bentoms thanks for looking at this, I will give the next version a try with the same dmg and let you know what is the outcome.

I wonder if I use a different dmg the outcome would be different. How would you recommend a dmg be captured of a disk?

@dmw3 Really it was my bad for not accounting for disk images with less then a GB of free space.

Please try AutoCasperNBI 1.1.5 & let me know if it has worked!

@dmw3 More pre-release information:

@bentoms Ben, downloaded and installed the latest release 1.1.7, found that the build button and options are greyed out so could not do anything more to test this release.

@dmw3 hmm.. can you select the OS.dmg & then the imaging app?

@bentoms Tes, but then the rest is greyed out. the screenshot image in the last post shows what is available.

I did delete any reference to the previous version before installing version 1.1.7

I haven't tried it on another computer yet will do tomorrow, to see if it is an issue in the downloaded installer.

thanks for your hard work.

@dmw3 I managed to recreate with selecting "Casper Imaging.app" AND THEN the "OS.dmg"

Doing the reverse, (as it's read), works.

Looking at it today/later.