creation time on nbi

[tlarkin]

so, it has been like a year or so since I last updated our NBI (literally it was last summer) and I forgot how long this process takes. It has been going on for about 4+ hours now and is maybe 1/8th finished. This sound about right? I remember it taking long every time I do it, but I thought it went faster previous times.

thanks,

tom

[stevewood]

Are you using the Casper NBI creator? It never takes me that long to create
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:
an NBI. I usually take an OS DMG that I create with InstaDMG and then run
it through the Casper NBI creator, and it is generally finished in less than
30 minutes or so.

What machine are you running this on? Are you only putting in an OS DMG, or
a fat image?

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475

[tlarkin]

I added some apps to the install this time, like Disk Warrior and some Apple diag tools to run off of Netboot. I then FW TDM booted the mac I wanted to create the image from and used disk utility to create an image. I wanted to add some apps this time, but I guess I can always create it, then mount it as read/write and then drag and drop apps I want to add

[stevewood]

That shouldn't be enough to cause a 4 hr NBI creation. Strange. Try
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:
logging in as "root" on the machine and running everything under that login. See if that does it. I generally will run it that way just so I don't have
to worry about authentication dialogs popping up. I use that method when
compiling configs in Casper Admin too.

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475

[tlarkin]

Well I think it is definitely Monday. I was building this on my MBP which has a boot partition and one for data and I think when the NBI expanded I ran out of HD space.....yeah so uh, forget this email maybe...Gonna do it on my iMac now.