AutoCasperNBI - pre-release - testers needed

@johanguz I thought I was getting the same results with a 2015 Air and JSS v9.61 but Apple's 10.10.2 base OS boots with a circle and line through it. I'm thinking the 2015 Air might need to be it's own build until 10.10.3 is released.

@spraguga I built the netboot set with the 10.10.2 build that came with the new air so i don't think that's the issue. All my testing has been with prestage so i wonder if there's something up with that, will try it manually.

@johanguz & @spraguga Yep with the release of the 2015 Macs Yosemite is forked, there are a number of threads here about that.

This post gives some of the build numbers.

So to create an NBI, you'll need to create it from an OS.dmg captured off the Macs themselves or the 10.10.3 beta.

You'll then need to capture the HD of an unbooted Mac to create an OS.dmg to deploy.

@bentoms 2015 Air on v9.61 is working fine for me now using a DMG created from the computer. My only concern is that the Casper Imaging app doesn't always startup, seems to be 50/50 results.

@spraguga is it completely failing to load or just taking a while?

We're using 9.63 & imaging is loading fine, if slow. But the speed is down to changes in Yosemite & LaunchAgents.

@bentoms I can test further. How long should I wait to confirm?

@spraguga it's a launchAgent, so I'd guess you can check system.log or launchctl --list.

I'm wondering if it's 9.61 that's an issue?

Will be testing 10.10.3 final shortly, FYI!

@Chris_Hafner cool! Should be fine.

I'm hoping to release the next version soon!

Building with 10.10.3… right now! 10.10.3 party over here with @Chris_Hafner

SWEET! 10.10.3, 9.7 AutoCasperNBI is live at Brewster!

So, yep. Up and running super quickly thanks to @bentoms I'll say it again over and over. Creating custom NBIs are pretty damned easy. Yet, I almost don't even care anymore given that the process is pretty much fire and forget with AutoCasperNBI.

I have tested a clean distro 10.10.3 with recovery partition just fine. However, we're still primarily running 10.9.x for the remainder of the school year so that's what you're seeing here. One thing though Ben, any way to get AutoCasperNBI to remember the last index number used and automatically offer the next in succession? Don't remember if this was asked before.

P.S. I'm so damned glad to finally be able to post in this thread. Phew... and @emilykausalik Awww yea. So happy with Photos over iPhoto BTW.

@Chris_Hafner & @emilykausalik just created one for us too. :)

@Chris_Hafner RE: increment index, erm.. The number is randomised between 1 - 4095 for Standalone & 4096-65535 for Load balanced NBI's (ok index off the top of my head so might be wrong)... So, in short.. No.

But is it a concern for a technical thing? Or an mild OCD thing? (I used to have a index formula, so get the latter).

Heh, no worries! Anyways, it works like a charm.

The last few Macs I've imaged haven't created Recovery HDs… not sure if that's related to this or maybe something with AutoDMG. Anyone else getting their machines reporting as No Recovery Partition after imaging?

Just to be clear, my working ones were captured using Composer. Not AutoDMG like the NBIs.

What version of Casper Imaging did you use? 9.65 or 9.7? I'm heading down this path today with 10.10.3 and a new 10.10.3 NetBoot image created with the beta AutoCasperNBI...

Well... I'm 99% sure I used 9.7. It's possible I accidentally used an old beta but I'm about to make another anyways!

Try 9.65. Bet it works. Did for me.

@amanda.wulff Has anyone reported an issue with imaging using Casper Imaging 9.7 to lay down an AutoDMG 1.53-created 10.10.3 image (single file that includes Recovery)? Seems that the OS partition gets laid down, but Recovery does not. This seems to be working fine with 10.10.3 and Casper Imaging 9.65...

Working great. I've built 4 nbi's so far, all boot nicely. More of a quibble but when the nbi is building the status window remains on top of every other application. Running on 10.10.3.

@emilykausalik Kernel Extentsion issue on 10.10.1 has been fixed in next release

@johnnasset It's the fun of the language I wrote it in, basically as it's not a multithreaded language.. if I make the progress bar hide.. you can't bring it to the front until the process ends & in the dock all you see is it not responding.

AutoCasperNBI 1.1.8 Release Candidate: https://github.com/macmule/AutoCasperNBI/releases/tag/1.1.8

Last one before releasing to all if ok.

(Basically need to update documentation & naffing off on hols so it'll have to wait).

Please log issues on Github

This is probably the wrong thread, but is anyone having issues with NBIs created with AutoCasperNBI 1.1.4, OS X 10.10.3 created using AutoDMG with iTunes slipstream? Specifically, my SMB (Windows 2008 R2) distpoint does not mount. I can mount it manually, but Casper Imaging refuses to. I am using 9.65 instead of 9.7 because of the block copy errors I reported in another thread.

Any guidance? I can move this if it does not belong here.

Thanks!

That's an issue specific to Casper Imaging.app 9.65 not being able to mount SMB volumes. Downgrading the app to 9.63 should resolve your issue. I haven't upgraded to 9.7 yet, but that might address the issue too.