Erase & Install

[woodsb]

Just finished listening to episode 102 of the Mac Admins Podcast. The guest, Armin Briegel mentioned a handy app named Erase & Install. The app is a wrapper around the startosinstall command. It's very user friendly and can detect a macOS installer anywhere on the machine. If anyone is looking for an alternative to startosinstall in Self Service this is a great solution.

Click here for more information.

[ThijsX]

Indeed it is great!

[wmateo]

Love this.

[martinwiden]

Grahamn Pugh has done an "extension" of the original script that's made by Greg Neagle. We're currently using this to upgrade computers where the user is not an admin.

https://github.com/grahampugh/erase-install

[Mkh]

@martinwiden a silly question .. how can I use the options of this script on Jamf ( i'm pretty new here )

[sharriston]

I just wish with the limited space available on current model macs (that our school buys) and the size of current OS installers there was a way these could be created without having to cache or download a full installer on users machines. Like a way to use the recovery drive. Just complaining for the sake of complaining.