Casper 8.22 hosted on 10.6.8 Support Lion?

I have not had success imaging lion systems with 10.6.8 / Casper 8.21...

Haven't tried 8.22

John Wojda

Lead System Engineer, DEI & Mobility

3333 Beverly Rd. B2-338B

Hoffman Estates, IL 60179

Phone: (847)286-7855

Page: (224)532.3447

Team Lead DEI: Matt Beiriger
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Team Lead Mobility: Chris
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Ana

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"Any time you choose to be inflexible in your approach to an
unpredictable project you are already building failure into your plan"

I've been able to image lion systems from a 10.6.8/Casper 8.21 and 8.22.

Allen

fine for me on 10.7 server & 8.22 imaging both 10.6.8 & 10.7.1

I use instaDMG to create base os

Our JSS is still on 10.6.7 with 8.21, I have successfully imaged 10.7.0 and 10.7.1 in testing lion before we are forced to use lion with new hardware.

I used Composer to create the base OS from the version supplied with 8.21 and the same procedure as with 10.6.x clients.

Our clients do not yet require 10.7 so also still using the existing netboot images.

Happy to share our procedure for creating a base if it would help anyone.

Thanks,

Lisa.

Lisa Davies
ICT Client Services Manager
Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview
Phone: 02 9882 8413
Mobile: 0417 005 735

I should clarify, If I use instadmg it’s fine – if I use the installESD (our preferred so we can get the recovery partition) then it’s not.

I also tried the Munki wrapper yesterday – which you put in the ESD file into a payload free package and set it as the OS – which works – but then when the system reboots, THEN loads the OS – making any scripts or anything you need to load non-functional, I also had it lock up on the setup wizard.

John Wojda

Lead System Engineer, DEI & Mobility

3333 Beverly Rd. B2-338B

Hoffman Estates, IL 60179

Phone: (847)286-7855

Page: (224)532.3447

Team Lead DEI: Matt Beiriger <mailto:mbeirig at searshc.com;jwojda at searshc.com?subject=John%20Wojda%20Feedback&body=I%20am%20contacting%20you%20regarding%20John%20Wojda.>

Team Lead Mobility: Chris <mailto:cstaana at searshc.com;jwojda at searshc.com?subject=John%20Wojda%20Feedback&body=I%20am%20contacting%20you%20regarding%20John%20Wojda.> Sta Ana

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“Any time you choose to be inflexible in your approach to an unpredictable project you are already building failure into your plan”

Have you tried creating a compiled config from the installESD (management turned off & just the OS and updates). This will give you a DMG in the compiled configuration folder on your caspershare that is an untouched build of the OS. Much like what you would get from InstaDMG, but it has the recovery partition.

Thanks
Allen

I think that went a bit over my head.

John Wojda

Lead System Engineer, DEI & Mobility

3333 Beverly Rd. B2-338B

Hoffman Estates, IL 60179

Phone: (847)286-7855

Page: (224)532.3447

Team Lead DEI: Matt Beiriger
<mailto:mbeirig at searshc.com;jwojda at searshc.com?subject=John%20Wojda%20Fe
edback&body=I%20am%20contacting%20you%20regarding%20John%20Wojda.>

Team Lead Mobility: Chris
<mailto:cstaana at searshc.com;jwojda at searshc.com?subject=John%20Wojda%20Fe
edback&body=I%20am%20contacting%20you%20regarding%20John%20Wojda.> Sta
Ana

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"Any time you choose to be inflexible in your approach to an
unpredictable project you are already building failure into your plan"

RTFM... lol page 224 has a brief note on this.

Launch Casper Admin on a mac logged in as root.

Select the configuration that you want to compile and click the Compile button.

The compiling process installs the contents of a configuration to a single disk image, and then makes a block copy of the configuration.

Sorry, it's hard to explain over email.

1. Create a config and make sure that management is shut off.
2. That config should consist of the OS Installer, Updates, Printers, Java (anything you want in your Base OS).
3. Compile the config - after it's finished you should have a DMG in Compiled Configurations on your CasperShare.
4. From the finder goto Compiled Configurations and Copy the DMG to your desktop.
5. Now copy that DMG from your desktop to Casper Admin. You now have a BaseOS that has never been booted up much like you would get from InstaDMG, but with the Recovery Partition and you can apply that to any new Configuration.

Does this make sense?

Allen

I finally got this going (crappy 10/100 running over BrokenRing). I did
10.7.1 InstallESD + the 10.7.2 developer seed (so I can test some of the
limitations of 10.7.1 and earlier) and our quickadd package for our
local admin account.

I was able to deploy it, but again the recovery didn't show up, and
neither did the quickadd package's account.

Although, when I used just the 10.7.1 installESD file the recovery
partition did show up, maybe it got broken because I loaded the 10.7.2
patch on it...

John Wojda

Lead System Engineer, DEI & Mobility

3333 Beverly Rd. B2-338B

Hoffman Estates, IL 60179

Phone: (847)286-7855

Page: (224)532.3447

Team Lead DEI: Matt Beiriger
<mailto:mbeirig at searshc.com;jwojda at searshc.com?subject=John%20Wojda%20Fe
edback&body=I%20am%20contacting%20you%20regarding%20John%20Wojda.>

Team Lead Mobility: Chris
<mailto:cstaana at searshc.com;jwojda at searshc.com?subject=John%20Wojda%20Fe
edback&body=I%20am%20contacting%20you%20regarding%20John%20Wojda.> Sta
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"Any time you choose to be inflexible in your approach to an
unpredictable project you are already building failure into your plan"

John,

Why are you adding the quickadd pkg? After you copy down the BaseOS.dmg from your caspershare, I would delete the configuration that you created. Copy the BaseOS.dmg back up to CasperAdmin, create a new Config (this time turn on management w/ all your settings) and take it from there.

Allen

Oh, sorry I didn't type that out, I did create the new config with the
compiled image - then I added the quickadd to it, and still didn't
create the account. But if I manually run the package or push from
casper remote everything runs properly.

Weird.

John Wojda

Lead System Engineer, DEI & Mobility

3333 Beverly Rd. B2-338B

Hoffman Estates, IL 60179

Phone: (847)286-7855

Page: (224)532.3447

Team Lead DEI: Matt Beiriger
<mailto:mbeirig at searshc.com;jwojda at searshc.com?subject=John%20Wojda%20Fe
edback&body=I%20am%20contacting%20you%20regarding%20John%20Wojda.>

Team Lead Mobility: Chris
<mailto:cstaana at searshc.com;jwojda at searshc.com?subject=John%20Wojda%20Fe
edback&body=I%20am%20contacting%20you%20regarding%20John%20Wojda.> Sta
Ana

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"Any time you choose to be inflexible in your approach to an
unpredictable project you are already building failure into your plan"

Hi Allen,

Did the process below take all weekend for you?

Ben

No, but if you're doing this on a MacBook Air over the USB Ethernet Adapter it will be pretty slow (I really really hate that its only 100M). I actually created one of an older iMac for testing and it wasn't too bad. When you compile the original config you are installing the OS and updates to a sparseimage bundle over the network. But the advantages of this come into play when you are imaging your machines later on. The imaging time is much faster, especially when you are imaging a MacBook Air.

Allen

thanks.. hitting the button now.. 

Not sure why it did not add it. I have a firstboot script that creates our admin account and a few other things on the firstboot. Instead of the QuickAdd, what happens if you click on "Create this account it it does not exist" under Management when you Edit the Configuration. I know with my script the account is created.

Thanks
Allen

Was this a compiled configuration?

Regards,

Ben.