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casper partitioning

  • May 27, 2008
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  • Anonymous

we discovered that having the wrong partition scheme on intel based macs makes it impossible to upgrade to leopard.
must be GUID not APM.
well i used a utility called ipartition which not only can change partition scheme's non destructively, it can resize partitions between amc and windows & add an efi partition if need be.
I have added this utility to my netboot infrastructure. it is sweet. and only $50.

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    • tlarkin
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    • May 27, 2008

    You can use diskutil from the command line and write a pre action script
    that runs and wipes the drive with the GUID partition instead of using
    APM. It wouldn't cost anything and you wouldn't have the overhead of
    loading an application at netboot.

    Just an idea though.

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    • Anonymous
    • May 27, 2008

    i think non destructive is the key. apple's way of changing from GUID to APM scheme's is destructive.

    Siddhartha Chadda
    Chief Technology Officer

    e: schadda at oco.com
    p: 612 215 3533
    f: 612 215 9801
    c: 612 986 9310

    OLSON
    We Build Bonfire Brands
    www.oco.com

    John_Wetter
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    • John_Wetter
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    • May 27, 2008

    Are you doing just upgrades, or are you doing fresh installs? Sounds like upgrades. Is that going okay? I don't plan on doing any upgrades to Leopard, only new installs, so destructive would be fine as you're laying a new image down.

    -John

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