Dual Boot Labs

nelsonm
New Contributor

So I am trying to figure out how I am going to accomplish imaging our Labs for the Fall semester. I am new to the Casper Suite and used DeployStudio with Winclone to deploy beforehand. We have 6 Labs totaling 180 or so computers with 3 different models. We also have about 50 classrooms that have Dual Boot Mac Minis in them with about 3 different models. This makes it quite difficult because we have to have different images because of the different bootcamp drivers for each model. Previously our workflow looked something like this: we had our syspreped winclone image on the Desktop of our Admin account in OS X. We would multicast the OS X image to the machine and then launch a bash script that applied the winclone image to the BOOTCAMP partition. We then walked around and named the machines and licensed a piece of software. I have tried imaging a machine with casper imaging and deploying the winclone image directly via casper imaging and I can't get it to work. It applies the image, but when the machine reboots it just hangs. If I hold down option and click on the BOOTCAMP partition it will boot, but OS X will not boot. Is anyone else out there doing Dual Boot labs? If so, how are you accomplishing it? Does everyone else have to build multiple images for all the different hardware because of the Bootcamp drivers? Any ideas, discussion, or help is greatly appreciated.

OS: Snow Leopard 10.6.8
BOOTCAMP: Windows XP SP3
Hardware: iMac Intel (Early 2008), Mac mini (Mid 2010), Mac mini (Mid 2007), iMac Intel (Late 2006), iMac Intel (Late 2009),

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rmanly
Contributor III

Casper is really picky about permissions in the Winclone folder/bundle on the server. That may be your issue.

We have used Casper to dual-image machines for years. At the time Casper was the only game in town that could do it.

This is how we do it.

  1. setup windows
  2. sysprep windows
  3. set to boot in Mac OS
  4. reboot
  5. run winclone
  6. shrink partition
  7. capture it
  8. upload to Casper Admin
  9. save, sync, quit
  10. open Casper Admin on another computer (this will create a BOM if for some reason it didn't the first time)
  11. add it to a configuration

nelsonm
New Contributor

Thank you for your response. I did not create a BOM and that was probably part of my problem. Can you give me an idea of what your sample configuration looked like?

rmanly
Contributor III

Not sure what you would like to see but took this screenie.

https://skitch.com/feydrmm/882wc/casper-admin

nelsonm
New Contributor

Thanks, that is just about what mine looks like, I just wanted to be sure. Going to try and test it now.