casper partitioning

[#1]

we discovered that having the wrong partition scheme on intel based macs makes it impossible to upgrade to leopard.
must be GUID not APM.
well i used a utility called ipartition which not only can change partition scheme's non destructively, it can resize partitions between amc and windows & add an efi partition if need be.
I have added this utility to my netboot infrastructure. it is sweet. and only $50.

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[tlarkin]

You can use diskutil from the command line and write a pre action script
that runs and wipes the drive with the GUID partition instead of using
APM. It wouldn't cost anything and you wouldn't have the overhead of
loading an application at netboot.

Just an idea though.

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[#3]

i think non destructive is the key. apple's way of changing from GUID to APM scheme's is destructive.

Siddhartha Chadda
Chief Technology Officer

e: schadda at oco.com
p: 612 215 3533
f: 612 215 9801
c: 612 986 9310

OLSON
We Build Bonfire Brands
www.oco.com

[John_Wetter]

Are you doing just upgrades, or are you doing fresh installs? Sounds like upgrades. Is that going okay? I don't plan on doing any upgrades to Leopard, only new installs, so destructive would be fine as you're laying a new image down.

-John