Are you talking about 'Scenario 2' on that page?

I haven't tried it but others have talked about using this: http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/son-of-installlion-pkg/

I definitely would recommend using Greg Neagle's createOSXinstallPkg for 10.8 upgrades. It bypasses the issue of having to select the drive, accept EULA, etc. and provides an automated upgrade. It works fine with Self Service.

Allen Golbig gave a talk at Penn State MacAdmins 2012 about installLion.pkg, which is the earlier name for this installer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eMgh41KgOk

Thanks fellas. I'll give it a whirl!

okay, so it didn't work. package downloaded for a while, and did some "processing" for a while and then reported back tthat the policy was complete.

I then thought that the reboot i setup in the policy would trigger the install to start when rebooting but it didn't.

This all works when running the package manually though.

We've successfully updated 6000 Macs during the past three months from 10.6.6 to 10.8.2 using the 10.6.8 combo updater and Greg Neagle's createOSXinstallPkg. It took some work to get the right workflow.

We created three policies. The first policy was manually triggered to avoid accidental updates. It updated the computers from 10.6.6 to 10.6.8, then created a smart group that triggered the second policy that updated the computers to 10.8.2. When that policy completed, it created a smart group that triggered the final policy that ran software patches and ran a few customizations.

This automation worked fine in small numbers, but when it was triggered on a larger scale, the smart groups quickly got out of hand. We were triggering updates when we didn't want to, so we ended up keeping the three policies, but triggering each with a manual trigger and using static groups. This gave us more control. Anyway, this is all to say that it took a lot of testing, but we were able to make it work.

Regarding getting the 10.8.2 to reboot into the OS installer, it wasn't until I delayed the reboot in the Advanced settings with /sbin/shutdown -r +5 that I was able to get the computers to boot into the installer.

For my ML installs from SelfService (using Greg Neagle's createOSXinstallPkg), I had to use the Reboot To: Currently Selected (No bless) option.

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Reboot To: Currently Selected (No bless) option.

I'm new to Casper and I'm using JSS v 9.12. Is the process the same on this version? The createOSXinstallpkg tool creates a non-flat pkg which the JSS will zip. Do i just use the installpkgfromdmg script?