@dwest it can get confusing. @donmontalvo has a good breakdown. Here's another way to draw analogies to what you may know:

Netinstall is to network boot+install what RecoveryHD is to local boot+install: a way to boot off internal drive and install a base OS.

Casper Netinstall Image Creator is to network imaging what your local Casper restore drive is to local imaging: a way to access your full Casper Imaging workflows and restore OS X or an imaging workflow to the Mac's internal drive.

If you are following best practice for modular imaging (core OS + application layers + configuration scripts) you may never use NetRestore, which I have always associated more with mass lab imaging or monolithic image restores (nuke + pave).

+1 for the Sugestion on adding Utilities such as DiskUtility, Finder, etc. as well as addressing Unlocked FV2 drives

Version 5 is out... :D

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/viewProduct.html?id=13&view=info

is there a change log somewhere about what is new in 5?

@CasperSally AFAIK.. it's 10.10 support & the option to compress the image.

Hopefully it'll start working again for me. During and shortly after my Jump Start 6 months ago NetInsall Creator was working great. Something changed however that made it utterly broken. I think the cause may have been a VLAN issue or other misconfiguration in my network, all of which have since been worked out. But I've been too busy to test Netinsall Creator again. Hopefully soon I will find time to try again!

@wmateo we replicated your error Posted 7/15/14 at 11:17

In our case we tried to run Casper NetInstall Image Creator under the account name "Admin". The error: an error occurred while creating nbimageinfo.plist kept coming on for complete unknown reasons.

My colleague suggested to run this application under a different account on OSX: profit!

So there is probably something in the code that doesn't like the application under the account name admin.

I'm not sure if this is the same problem as yours but it sure is something that needs to get fixed in Casper NetInstall Image Creator.

I am also getting the nbimageinfo.plist error as well. I tried what wmateo posted by logging in with a different account then admin, but am still getting the same error. Any other thoughts?

We're also seeing the nbimageinfo.plist error in CNIC 5.0.

I removed spaces from the Image name and that error went away (to be replaced by "An error occurred while optimizing the image").

@tatiang - Would you mind sending us your system.log file from around the time when you see this occur? Please send it to your account manager, and they will get it to the appropriate group here at JAMF.

Thanks,

Nick

Has anyone had success suing version 5 on 10.10 units? I've had a few early failures but very little time to dig into them. So, just wondering!

FYI, Just spoke with a tech from JAMF. It seems that this took only works up to 10.10.3. at the moment.

@Chris_Hafner We've posted a new version (6.0) of the Casper NetInstall Image Creator this morning that should resolve any issues you were seeing with creating a 10.10.3 NetInstall image. This release also includes support for OS X El Capitan.

Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues with the tool.

Thanks,

Nick

Ahh, I look forward to it. One thing that I've always been super happy about with Casper netInstall Image Creator is how quickly it boots. It's a full minuet quicker than a traditional .NBI! I love having both of these tools in our quiver!