Hey y'all! So we have been recently restoring 10+ computers every Friday through Internet Recovery/Recovery Mode. This has started to be taxing on our network and is pretty hands-on. How do you handle erase and installs? What is the best practice for... View more
Hello, guys My ISC-DHCP-server had been working very well until I installed NetSUSLP 2 days ago. After the installation of NetSUSLP via the run package, my DHCP service provided by ISC-DHCP-Server failed to work. sudo systemctl status isc-dhcp-server... View more
I've been wanting this for a long time, but didn't know it exists already! For whatever reason I could never find it when I tried searching for recovery boot for newer OS. I figure, I may not be the only one who can't find it and needs to know the di... View more
I am trying to add a script to my Mojave NetInstall image that will remove the firmware password. I have an Expect script that I use that works well. I can build the NetInstall image without any scripts, but when I try to add any scripts System Image... View more
Dear Community Members, is there a way to install a Mac, via Internet Recovery, but without the Conversion of the Flash Drive to APFS - because we need to use Deep Freeze for Mac & it does not support the new File System. Also is there a Script I can... View more
Hello everyone, Does anyone know if System Image Utility will be dropped alongside most, if not all, of macOS Server in a future release? (Details: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312) I've already setup a Linux VM running NetSUS and that seems ... View more
I could see the logs which is mentioned below netinstall com.apple.xpc.launchd service exited with abnormal code 2 View more
My company is starting to use the 2017 Macbook Pro's (USB-C) and our current imaging setup is no longer cutting it, but we are also not yet ready to move to 10.13. Currently we use Casper Imaging to lay down 10.12 along with a number of apps, but the... View more
I have a 5 member cluster: 1 database, 3 client tomcat nodes, 1 admin console. If I bring memcached into the equation, I am able to add at most one extra Ubuntu server to support memcached. What kind of memcached configuration settings would be optim... View more
2017 macbook pro with touchbar won't netboot. We only have two in the district as of right now and this is the first time I've had to try to reinstall the OS. When using internet recovery over a wire it claims 9+ hours and then errors out. I created ... View more
Hello everybody, I have this working for the most part and wanted to share. Previously we were using Fog to install Windows on all PC/Mac hardware, needing flash drives for Mac hardware. Using captured images was more and more work as Windows 10 "upg... View more
Hi everyone, I need some help. I’ve used DeployStudio to do thick imaging for years, and while it’s been less than ideal, it’s worked. I stared using Casper about six months ago, and wanted to do thin imaging. Problem is, it’s a mess. I’m netbooting ... View more
For a while now I've been using the createinstallmedia tool built into Install OSX installer apps to build bootable OS installers from USB. However, I want to create either a NetInstall or NetRestore image such that I can boot machines to our Netboot... View more
Hello All! I am quite new to JAMF Nation as my organization has just signed up for Casper. I am trying to figure my way through establishing a Netboot/Netsus server and I am running into some issues in an attempt to create a netboot image (.nbi) to e... View more
Is anyone else having issues with automatically enrolling workstations with an OS X Server or 3rd party enrollment profile? I've done everything I can think except for rebuilding the server from the ground up. I've tried using the DeployStudio automa... View more
Recently, my IT team started offering our old, refereshed Macs (4+ years old) to members. During the Referesh cycle, each Mac is wiped and re-imaged with a standard "factory" Mac OS X image (usually the most recent OS X build - assuming its comapatai... View more
First I apologize for the length and advanced nature of the questions.I have been editing a script that will configure or create all the files on a disk, post install, to pre-configure it when booted the first time. The idea is to have a post-install... View more
hi, can anyone tel me the root cause of why the netboot is not getting detected in across vlans. even though we have done all the settings in DHCP scope. But it works when the netboot server and client are in same VLAN. what is the solution to make t... View more
Hello. After updating to Casper Suite 9.8.1 I cannot Netboot anymore. I get a kernel panic stating that there was NFS Failure and unable to mount NFS server. JAMF support recommended I just create a new Netinstall with AutoCasperNBI from MacMule. I h... View more
I'm using three servers for Casper 9.73 imaging: The JSS is running under CentOS 6.5 on an IBM box, the distribution point is an Xserve 2009 running 10.9.5 and the NetBoot server is another Xserve 2009 running 10.9.5 for NetBoot across subnets with t... View more
So I need to both create a new user and have that user autologin on first boot (web kiosks and digital signs). I have always used (pre-10.9.4) CreateUserPkg.app. However I can't seem to make it work post-netinstall to autologin even when run as a Fir... View more
Hello. Anyone also notice that the new version of Server 4.1 is not reading Install OS X .apps that are on the desktop to make NetInstall images? I noticed this after upgrading to the new version of Server and 10.10.3. I am trying to make a NetInstal... View more
Does C. Imaging wipe the partitions when you do the erase drives? In the past (9.63 and lower) we've had to run a script that wipes the partitions and then recreates as one, then we run C. Imaging and it does it's voodoo and redoes the recovery parti... View more
So I'm pushing out a new version of our various images (10.10-10.7). I have a few different versions of each, some designed to repartition the drive, some designed to just do an Erase and Install. I have a handful of Macs that will see my NetRestore ... View more
So I've built my custom Default User. Among it's modifications is a unique screensaver to our company, which just uses the Photo Slideshow of a selection of artwork. I've gone through the proper steps in replacing the contents of the English.lproj fo... View more
I've created a series of custom login window backgrounds for the four Mac OSs we currently have deployed. Each one has its own separate on our NetRestore server. -The 10.10 one I've found easy to deploy. Replace a file in /Library/Cache and make sure... View more
Hey all, Just like the title says, SIU can't see any of the installer bundles in /Applications for 10.10, 10.10.1 or 10.10.2. I checked to make sure SIU was checking the correct folder for the installers, but still no luck. Everything is greyed out, ... View more
EDIT: To save everyone the trouble who runs across this post posting the TL;DR version. - Couldn't get older macs to boot to a 10.8 NBI or 10.9 NBI on a Yosemite Host running Server v4 unless the NBI I'm using is 10.10. My old macs can't boot or inst... View more
So I'm finding when I image our Macs with a no-boot image of Yosemite using NetBoot and Casper Imaging, I am unable to write to the file system without corruption. This is causing scripts that apply settings and install products to fail or write corr... View more
Hi there, well, I could be dumb asking this but I never faced this before. Recently the new MBP Retina coming in our org is giving this error.Here is what I get as log: Running workflow: 'INSTALL IMAGE MAVERICKS' (B54433AA-18AD-475C-B78D-B1B834HG9GD)... View more