i5/7-baed MBPs

[jarednichols]

Hi-

Anyone running into problems turning the OS disk that comes with the i5/7 MBPs into a Mac OS X installer? I keep getting an error. Do you have to do it on that hardware?

j

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

[jarednichols]

Confirmed that you need to be running on the hardware to tick the box indicating it's an OS install disk.

Bummer.

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

[stevewood]

I can also confirm that using InstaDMG (latest from SVN) does not work, and
neither does a Composer snap shot. I've tried both and the only way I can
get the system to install is using the disc image in Casper Admin as an OS
image on the hardware.

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
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[#4]

Maybe it's just been too long since I did this last, but did you guys get a
NetInstall working on the new i5's?

We just got our 10.6.3 retail disk. I popped it into my machine and made an
pointed the Casper NetInstall Creator at it, selected Casper Imaging 7.21
and hit go, and I keep getting an error saying the 'hdiutil resource is
busy'

Any ideas?

I've tried pointing at a Mac OS X 10.6.3 dmg as well, with the same
result...

[#5]

The beat way I have found to get a core build is to create a 10GB spare disk image.

Open the installer cd in the finder
Use the go menu to open System/Installation
'Note the missing leading slash'
Open Packages and find "MacOS Install.mpkg" open this and install the mac to to your sparse disk image.

Once done eject and use disk utility to convert your sparse disk image to a compressed one and run scan for asr to all block level copy to occur.

This would be a more official way of creating a clean disk image... I would think.

Tomos

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[#6]

Opening sentance should be sparse disk image. Premptive text needs some work...

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[stevewood]

Rather than go to all that work, just create a disk image of the "drop in
box" DVD that comes with the machine and drop that image into Casper Admin. Tell Casper Admin that the image is an Apple OS Installer and away you go.

My understanding is that the method Casper Admin uses is similar to the one
that is used by the System Image Utility (SIU) that is part of the Server
Admin Tools, and it is also similar to how InstaDMG creates disk images.

In all cases, you get a clean, non-booted, disk image ready to install on a
system.

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

[jarednichols]

This is the original process that I went through but found that it would error out unless you were doing the process on the actual hardware. My guess is that the Apple installers now do a hardware check and that's why I couldn't compile the config or create the OS image in this process unless I was on that hardware.

That spawned the whole thread :)
j

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

[stevewood]

You're right, that's the one thing I left out, but that you had stated
above. Dropping the disk image into Casper Admin and checking that Apple OS
box in Casper Admin all needed to be done on the i5/i7 machine.

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

[stevewood]

Yes, I was able to get an NBI built. Just like I stated before, everything
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Bob Feldhake <bob.feldhake.pyb3 at statefarm.com> wrote:
had to be done on the notebook (17" MBP in this case). These are the steps
I took:

1. Ran through the setup on the notebook so I had 10.6.3 running on the laptop.
2. Installed the 10.6.3 that came with the notebook onto an external USB drive so I could boot off it to image.
3. Booted off the USB drive and ran Composer to capture the OS that was on the notebook hard drive.
4. Ran Casper Net Install Creator from the USB drive booted on the notebook.

That all went semi smooth. Of course, in thinking about this now, I
probably could have booted the notebook in Target Disk mode and attached to
another box running 10.6.3 to capture the OS. But I'm pretty sure that I
needed to create the NBI while booted off the notebook. Not 100% sure of
that though.

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