Lion Image?

[ImAMacGuy]

Has anybody figured out how to make an image out of the Lion installer
app or is golden master the only way?

I've tried instadmg and it didn't seems to know what to do with it -
although on the forums they say the latest SVN works with the
instadmg.bash script. I just am not knowledgeable enough to make it
work apparently.

And I tried the 8.21 Composter and it didn't seem to support that method
of creating an OS image either.

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[tlarkin]

InstaDMG works but there are some things you must change to make it
work. I read a blip about it on the Mac Enterprise List. If you go to
the project page there should be some documentation on making it work
with Lion.

Otherwise, if you pull out the ESD image from the app itself, you
should be able to burn that to disk, or perhaps use that with InstaDMG
is what I assume.

-Tom

[nessts]

and you can go old school and install then use firewire and composer to make an image of the disk you just installed on.
instaDMG got real scary for me when none of my computers that I used to make an image needed the next combo update, so I stopped using it a little over a year ago.

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[jarednichols]

In my limited testing thus far, if you drop the InstallESD.DMG into Casper Admin, you can mark it as an Installer. It deploys just fine. Though, we need to decide if we're going to deploy a recovery partition or not. It may wreak havoc with our FDE product if we do deploy it, but it has some benefit.

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[golbiga]

InstaDMG will only make an image of the OS (instadmg.bash). If you need the recovery partition then you are out of luck, for now. Looks like NetRestore and DeployStudio support the creation of the recovery partition.

Allen

[golbiga]

Does Casper Admin install the recovery partition as well?

[jarednichols]

No, it's a separate DMG. It's find-able in the Lion downloader, similar to the InstallESD.dmg. I think someone on the list may have mentioned where it lives.

If I were to deploy the recovery HD, I'd likely partition the disk, deploy my main partition and then at the end of my deployment (before reboot) have a package that just copies down the recovery partition DMG to /tmp and then I'd run a script that basically did an hdiutil (or asr?) restore of the recovery partition from that DMG of it. Running the reboot should toast /tmp.

Shouldn't be that hard.

j
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[#8]

This has worked for me.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/18/make-an-os-x-lion-boot-disc/ Matthew Skaj - ACTC, CCNA, Net+
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Macintosh Systems Administrator
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