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Detect GUID partition table?


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Hi-

Does anyone have a creative way of figuring out if a client computer has a GUID partition table? I have a piece of security software that I'd like to offer through self service but it must have a GUID partition table for installation. Intel is the primary requirement, but it's possible to have an Intel proc but still have an APT.

I assume the answer is a dummy package but I just don't know what to script for before laying that package.

Thanks!

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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure & Operations
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

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  • October 14, 2009

Oh you hit the head on the nail the answer is dummy package. Have a simple shells script run on each computer and have it run a diskutil list with either awk or grep and see if it has GUID or not. Then based on that have it trigger a custom casper policy that loads your dummy package on the system. Then you should be able to build a report based on the policy logs.



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  • October 14, 2009

Just what I needed :)

Thanks!
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure & Operations
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436


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