10.6 deployment

[#1]

Hi Everyone,

I know I am a little behind here, but I am trying to figure out how to roll out a basic or full install of 10.6 or higher. I have a new iMac with the latest OS installer and I thought if I made a .dmg of that install disk, that I could Casper Admin to load it and prepare it for installation on any other iMac that might be a little older. Is there any gotcha's? I haven't been able to get this to work.

Is there a minimum coming from my XServe for its OS? It is 10.4.11, so I am new to this 10.6 deployment stuff.

Thanks for your patience. I am close to getting all of the pieces in place to make this work smoothly. Casper is new to me though.

Mick

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[jarednichols]

If you're using Casper 7, no need to snap an image of a machine's OS. Use
the 10.6 install disk and create an image from it. Casper 7 can use this as
its base OS. See the documentation for more info.

j

[#3]

Hey Mick,

There are a few different methods that you could use, but the way I
typically build OS base configurations would be to do the following:

On your newest piece of hardware, install a clean OS.
Download and Install all system updates
* Repair Permissions

(This will be your 10.6 base)

*Target boot the computer that you just built your base image on (At startup
hold down the "T" button).
*Connect the target booted machine to another Mac and launch Composer.

*From within Composer you can select the option to "Create OS Package".

--missing content--

upload to your Casper server via Casper Admin.

If you are building a 10.6 image, just be aware that you will only be able
to deploy that to Intel Macs. It will not run on PPC machines as well as a
few earlier Intels that did not meet the system requirements for 10.6

Jason Weber
Independent School District 196