Casper Imaging with USB drives

[kink80]

Forgive my ignorance but I just wanted to confirm or dispatch the following: We deploy Mac OS X using a USB drive with Casper Imaging installed on it. My question is do I need to have separate USB drives running different Mac OS X versions to install on the Macs. Meaning if I have an older Mac that can't run 10.7.4 but can run 10.6.8 I would have to use a USB drive installed with 10.6.8 to deploy our 10.6.8 image using Casper imaging to this machine. Also on newer Macs that ship with 10.8 cannot be re-installed with a USB drive running 10.6.8 or 10.7.4 but must be booted with a USB drive that has 10.8 on it. Thanks in advance!

[tkimpton]

This is what has happened in my environment.

If I netboot to a 10.8 image but deploy a 10.6.8 build, the machine reboots after the build but I never see the login screen.

If I boot to a netboot 10.8 image and deploy a 10.8 build then its fine

If I netboot to a 10.6.8 netboot and try and deploy a 10.8 build then again I will never see the login window.

Only thing is to try different things to see what works for you. I don't know why I can't netboot one image and just deploy different builds but at least I know what I can and can't do.

[alexjdale]

I haven't had any issues using a different OS version in my Netboot than the image configuration, as long as the hardware is supported by both.

[kink80]

Thanks for the responses. To date we are only using the USB drives to image machines. So in short the machine I am imaging must support the OS x version that the USB drive is running and (obviously) support the OSX version that I am trying to install.