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Casper Image and Remote not installing packages

  • July 29, 2008
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  • Anonymous

Hey Guys-

I'm having a few problems with Casper. When I image a machine, I'm trying to use our existing MS Office package, which casper says it's installing, but there is no MS Office folder in the Applications folder when it is done. The package looks normal, and I can see when I use Casper Remote (which has the same issue) that the dmg is mounting properly, but it's almost like it's not ditto'ing the files out properly. I have seen this issue with some other packages as well, but haven't found a regularity.

Has anyone else seen anything like this?

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

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    • Anonymous
    • July 29, 2008

    One thing I have noticed that might be relevent is that some of the packages say 'DMG Package' in Casper Admin and some of them say 'Read Only DMG Package.' I don't know of anything I've done differently in creating the packages.

    Also, ls -l in terminal shows that some of the dmgs have extended attributes, looks like just FinderInfo and resourceForks, if that matters.

    Ryan Harter
    UW - Stevens Point
    Workstation Developer
    715.346.2716
    Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

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    • Anonymous
    • July 29, 2008

    We had an existing package as well but were told it should be created with
    composer for casper to install it correctly.

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    • Bukira
    • Contributor
    • July 29, 2008

    Casper installs the contents of the DMG, so if for example its contents are

    Applications/MS Office/Word

    then it installs Word into MS Office inside Applications

    if the DMG contains

    Installer

    then it simply copys the installer to the root of the Hard Disk,

    Capser creates dmg's based on the folder paths.

    all mine work fine

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    • Anonymous
    • July 29, 2008

    The odd part about this is that I've opened up the DMG and it does have the proper file structure in there:

    /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/<applications>
    /Library/Application Support
    /Library/Automator
    /Library/Fonts Disabled
    /Library/Receipts

    (The Font package is seperate)

    The DMG gets mounted properly on the target machine using casper remote, but it's like the contents aren't being copied out.

    Ryan Harter
    UW - Stevens Point
    Workstation Developer
    715.346.2716
    Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

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