10.7.4 InstallESD Installer automatically creates a Recovery HD?

[arekdreyer]

Has anyone else noticed that the 10.7.4 InstallESD automatically creates a Recovery HD? I may be confused, I've been trying various configurations.

[Kumarasinghe]

Yes. 10.7.4 InstallESD creates the Recovery HD.

[Chris]

10.7.3 did that too, and I'm pretty sure the ones before as well

[arekdreyer]

If 10.7.3 did this, then why go through the trouble of creating an image of the Recovery HD in https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=173 ?

[bentoms]

It's the way you package/capture the OS.

Those methods just capture the OS partition & not the recovery one, hence the need to lay it down seperately.

If you compile in Casper Admin a Lion OS, the DMG that Casper Admin creates is then partitioned by the Lion installer & thus creates both partitions.

[nkalister]

I think compiling the image is only necessary if you're using netboot.
I don't use netboot- way too many low bandwidth sites in my org and I don't want to set up netboot appliances at each one, so we image by booting off of USB drives. All I do is upload the installESD through casper admin, add it to a config, and image- recovery partitions are created with no extra work at all. It's worked this way for me with every version of Lion.

[wmateo]

@nkalister but what about admin account, and basic settings for that image? how do you capture them?

[emily]

@wmateo you can use a script to set up the settings, something along the lines of @rtrouton's might work for you with some tweaks:
https://github.com/rtrouton/rtrouton_scripts/tree/master/rtrouton_scripts/first_boot

What we do to create a local admin is simply create a policy that makes the local admin account on enrollment.

[nkalister]

Wmateo- we don't capture anything- settings are applied from scripts, like emily said.
accounts are created through packages or scripts- Mager Valp has a nice account creation pkg up on github, or you can create an account in your firstboot script using dscl.