It is a very simple one liner... #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/diskutil eraseDisk "HFS+ Journaled" "Macintosh HD" disk0 exit 0 That runs as preflight so it wipes out the whole partition and names it Macintosh HD. You could get fancy and create multiple parti... View more
This is our first attempt at imaging with a Boot Camp/Win XP partition. Does the winclone image get categorized as an OS with a priority of one or as something else? When building the configuration, does the winclone image get added as a package or i... View more
We’d love to host a 4 day CCA session at the U of Iowa during winter break. Anyone else outside of the 7 we have at the U of I, in the surrounding area, interested in coming here for a CCA session?Just taking a survey...... Thanks, Scott View more
So, the CS4 suite I have is two DVDs and some apps are on the second DVD. Do I have to make separate images and separate installers for these DVDs, or should I combine them into one image? help? Capturing preinsalled from composer 7 keeps spitting ou... View more
During the past school year, we used an open wireless network throughout our school district. When creating our original base OS image, the Mac Book we used to create the image connected to this network, and so all Mac Books imaged with this base OS ... View more
If you don't use OD in your environment.. is there a way to put people in the lpadmin group via the client level?Has anyone tried managed preferences, parental controls for printers? Everything the list has sent me on this doesn't work when I test it... View more
We imaged several hundred computers over the past few weeks and are findingsome strange anomalies. A machine may be missing Office or perhaps anotheris missing Adobe Reader. There doesn't seem to be a pattern, rhyme orreason. The machines are identic... View more
I am pondering something right now....I have a policy that enables clear text passwords in AFP for a legacy network connection at my work. So, I edited the plist, captured it with composer and set it as a start up policy and duped it as a log in hook... View more
Dear all- I'm scriptally challenged... this has got to be the most basic elementary script, but I haven'tventured into scripting yet, so if someone could help, I'd appreciateit! I'm looking to write a simple post-image script to remove the/Applicatio... View more
We will be changing our OD Master before the school year begins, and have already re-imaged most of our Mac Books with a configuration that has them look to the old OD Master for authentication. Is there an easy way to replace the old OD Master info ... View more
Hello everyone, Happy back to school for those that work in schools, and I mean that sarcastically :( I have this kind of weird intermittent issue. I am noticing a client every now and then will be showing the symbolic link directories in the finder.... View more
Since I have pounded my head against the wall dealing with NWEA, I went ahead and documented how I deployed it. So if you are going to deploy 6.4 to intel based macs you may want to give this a read. I used Composer and Self service to pretty much bu... View more
Was wondering if anyone has suffered hardware issues after pushing an Office2008 image? 3 black MacBooks all suffered the same hardware issue afterEntourage finished transferring data from Office 2004. All computers harddrives failed. I'm a little co... View more
After moving to 10.5.8 my image is now just over 8 gigs compressed. Unfortunately, it looks like its now too big to block copy onto a 40gighard drive (eMac). The image itself, once laid down, only uses about16gigs. Whats the limitation here? Why does... View more
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I remember a while back seeing someone on this list mentioning that theyonly allow apps to be run from the Applications folder. I am currentlylooking at implementing a similar setup. Is this done using ManagedPreferences or some other way? Any advice... View more
I just noticed that when I want to synchronize my casper shares it now says replicate. However, in the older versions I used to be able to select several shares on the left hand nav bar and right click and say sync. Now, it seems that when I try to r... View more
Has anyone tried the ADmitMac built-in binding in casper 7.01? I havefilled in all of my information but am unsure as to how this is supposedto take place. I'm assuming I still need my admitmac.pkg but I'm notsure of the order in which to have casper... View more
Hello Everyone,We just started using Casper here at Parkland College and I was wondering how everyone else was deploying Apple's Final Cut Studio 2 (or 3)? Are you just snapshotting the full installation with Composer or is there a way to create a cu... View more
Anyone know if Apple has issues a retail 10.5.x install DVD version beyond 10.5.6? I know they did 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.4, and 10.5.6 (which is the last one I have). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.5 Would sure make life easier if I didn't ha... View more
Anyone experiencing any problems uploading large DMGs into Casper Admin? I'm talking 20+ gigs. The images are made fine, but Admin seems to not like them... Jeffrey A. StraussDepartment of Educational TechnologySystems AdministratorLoyola High School... View more
I am trying to figure out a way to get a dialog box to notify users of the the fact that software updates have been installed and they need to reboot their machine. All of the scripts etc I have tried error out with a time out message or an AppleEven... View more
Howdy all, Anyone know a way to stop the copying/upload to the JAMF server throughCasper Admin? I have inadvertently copied 3 big (5 GB) of the wrong files to Casper Admin... No biggie.. Can just delete them. But I have to wait for all to upload.Dele... View more
I wanted to see if anyone has a way of letting clients delay an installationof software. Example: A message pops up before the install and allowsclients to click a button and delay the process to a later fixed time like30 minutes or so, or allows the... View more
I was wondering if anyone has used Casper to push out 10.5.8. I have done some testing and it works. But, looking through some forums there are some bad repair permissions problems, where if you repair permissions the files will no longer have any pe... View more
I learned the hard way that my iLife '09 package replaces the iPhoto Libraryfolder and therefore deletes all of the existing photos.In thinking about how to upgrade a computer from iLife '06 to iLife '09, thebest idea I have is to remove the user-spe... View more
Hi- I'm getting this error over and over in my system.log file: Aug 12 08:40:33 llosx1 com.apple.wikid[2526]: Traceback (most recent call last):Aug 12 08:40:33 llosx1 com.apple.wikid[2526]: File "/usr/share/ caldavd/bin/twistd", line 21, in Aug 12 08... View more
Hi, How many other people are using these, I have been experimenting with them for the past few weeks, My findings are: They seems to significantly improve the imaging time, my 9.2GB complied configuration DMG takes only 18 minutes to deploy to a 100... View more
I set up a managed preference for non admin users to add printers. I scoped it to one computer and rebooted. This machine still has a padlock and cannot add/remove or pause a printer. Does anyone else do this via Manage Preferences?Kathie IorizzoLowe... View more
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