Hello Happy Casper People!
Out of a dire need to quickly and efficiently upgrade users from one OS to
another (say, leopard to snow leopard), I've decided to research how having
a two-partition scheme can help us all save time and money.
Here's the breakdown I've been testing:
Partition One - System Files and Folders
Partition Two - User folders and Applications
I do a regular OS installation from DVD, then create a second partition. I
copy the "Users" and "Applications" folder over to this new second partition
and then - using symbolic links - I link them back to the main System
partition. This set-up runs smoothly and efficiently... when I create it on
my own. But scripting this solution in Casper has not been easy to figure
out, so I'm calling on all ya'll for some help.
While the Casper Imaging.app allow one to create new partitions on the fly,
it DOESN'T allow you to wipe a drive, create two partitions from scratch and
then apply the images you've uploaded to Casper Admin to each of those new
partitions.
Which begs the question: how can I pull this off?! Best I can tell, I'd have
to:
1) snapshot a base OS image
2) snapshot an Data image comprised of the "applications" and "users"
folders
3) launch casper imaging, apply my base OS image to the existing partition
4) create a second partition using casper imaging
5) apply the Data image to the second partition
6) run a script to create the symlinks necessary to allow the two partitions
to talk to one another
Happy to hear your thoughts. I can't really find any "best practices" notes
of this topic on the KB over at JAMF so if any of you have experience in
this arena, please share your thoughts!
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David Koff | SysAdmin | ITS | The J. Paul Getty Trust
dkoff at getty.edu | p. 310.440.6266 | f. 310.440.7705
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