Lion Imaging - what am I doing wrong?

[justinrummel]

Compile your Lion InstallESD

http://cl.ly/2j1J2g313N09011c3x43

- Justin

[tlarkin]

Are you compiling this on a 10.7 client?

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Casper Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a Configuration containing only that package. On that same client I have an external empty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal drive. I looked at the external drive and it has very little on it except some JAMF files. I see no evidence of OS install or cached files to do an install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
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Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

[gachowski]

I was skipping the compiling part...Thanks!!!!

C

[Walter]

Yes, on a 2010 Mac Mini cleanly installed with Lion and enrolled in an JSS 8.21 service.
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Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

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What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
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Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

[tlarkin]

Also, an easy way to test your image file is to scan for restore with disk utility and then use disk utility to ASR block copy it to a client over target disk mode or something (netboot even) and see if it properly installs.

[nessts]

I have the Factory DMG and uploaded it to casper while on a lion workstation, to a lion server,
Admin would not recognize the DMG as an installer, so I don't know if its looking at the name or what, but this is one of those new fangled 2 image DMGs that I can only get to restore from a lion client with asr from the command line.

Anyhow launched my lion netboot and tried to use imaging tool to install the configuration, no compiling, and it takes all of 1 second to install the image DMG, which is not quite long enough to get a bootable disk for some reason.
Seems like there may need to be an update on casper for the imaging stuff to work properly, either that or nobody can understand the process that is required to make it work, one or the other…
I just wrote a nice shell script to do the ASR and install all 6 packages that I need at the moment for testing,

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Todd Ness
Technology Consultant/Non-Windows Services
Americas Regional Delivery Engineering
HP Enterprise Services

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Casper Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a
Configuration containing only that package. On that same client I have an
external empty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion
configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it
to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty
drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal
drive. I looked at the external drive and it has very little on it except
some JAMF files. I see no evidence of OS install or cached files to do an
install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov><mailto:walter.rowe at nist.g
ov>
301-975-2885

[Walter]

Learning as I go … I looked on the distribution server and see the sparseimage file being updated under the CompiledConfigurations folder. That will give me a way to track progress and see that something is happening.
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Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote:

Also, an easy way to test your image file is to scan for restore with disk utility and then use disk utility to ASR block copy it to a client over target disk mode or something (netboot even) and see if it properly installs.

[tlarkin]

Here is my asr script I use for imaging. I don't use casper imaging to
block copy, I use it to create a work flow of an asr image as a parent
configuration so I can use a compiled configuration as a parent config
and base smart configurations off of it. That way I can maintain one
compiled image for all 13,000 Macs and then use package based deployment
for specific users/groups/departments.

#!/bin/bash

#Define the target - $1 to automatically get this from Casper,
/Volumes/Macintosh HD otherwise target="$1"

#Automatically acquire the dev entry devEntry=$(/usr/sbin/diskutil info "$target" | /usr/bin/grep "Device
Node" | /usr/bin/awk '{print $3}') echo "The dev entry for the disk to be restored: $devEntry"

#Acquire the original volume label originalName=$(/usr/sbin/diskutil info "$target" | /usr/bin/grep
"Volume Name" | /usr/bin/grep -o '[^:]*$' | /usr/bin/tr -s " " |
/usr/bin/sed 's/^[ ]//g') echo "The disk name: $originalName will be retained upon restoring."

#Unmount the disk to prepare it for ASR /usr/sbin/diskutil unmount $devEntry

#Perform the ASR copy echo "Initiating restore process and waiting for connection..." /usr/sbin/asr restore --source
"/Volumes/CasperShare/CompiledConfigurations/10.6.8_base_compiled.dmg"
-target "$devEntry" -erase -noprompt -timeout 0 -puppetstrings -noverify
--verbose

#Mount the disk again /usr/sbin/diskutil mount $devEntry

#Rename the disk to ensure that it's named with it's original name /usr/sbin/diskutil rename $devEntry "$originalName"

exit 0

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Casper Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a
Configuration containing only that package. On that same client I have
an
external empty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion
configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told
it
to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that
empty
drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal
drive. I looked at the external drive and it has very little on it
except
some JAMF files. I see no evidence of OS install or cached files to do
an
install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov><mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

[gachowski]

Walter,

I have not been able to get the process you are using to work either!!! (InstallESD.dmg into Casper Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer) I was hoping to get this up and running, Apple might create full installer images for every build because of the Apps store.

Anybody have any luck? I get the drive imaged as an installer HD/CD

C

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r Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a Configura
tion containing only that package. On that same client I have an external e
mpty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal drive. I looked at the ext
ernal drive and it has very little on it except some JAMF files. I see no e
vidence of OS install or cached files to do an install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

[Walter]

I am running the Compile of the configuration right now. I ran this before and it NEVER completed. Let's see if it runs this time.
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Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

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What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

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[Walter]

How long does it normally take for Compile to complete?
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Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

--missing content--

Casper Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a
Configuration containing only that package. On that same client I have an
external empty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion
configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it
to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty
drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal
drive. I looked at the external drive and it has very little on it except
some JAMF files. I see no evidence of OS install or cached files to do an
install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov><mailto:walter.rowe at nist.g
ov>
301-975-2885

[tlarkin]

It takes a while

--missing content--

Casper Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a
Configuration containing only that package. On that same client I have
an
external empty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion
configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told
it
to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that
empty
drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal
drive. I looked at the external drive and it has very little on it
except
some JAMF files. I see no evidence of OS install or cached files to do
an
install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov><mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

[#13]

Maybe I'm missing something too -- Admin refuses to recognize that
InstallESD.dmg is a MacOS Installer.

[Walter]

… especially the client is working over an AFP where the InstallESD and the target sparseimage both are on a server with a 50ms delay (T3 link).
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Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

On Aug 12, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote:

It takes a while

--missing content--

Casper Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a
Configuration containing only that package. On that same client I have an
external empty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion
configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it
to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty
drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal
drive. I looked at the external drive and it has very little on it except
some JAMF files. I see no evidence of OS install or cached files to do an
install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov><mailto:walter.rowe at nist.g
ov>
301-975-2885

[gachowski]

After the compile… it still booted to the recovery partition

Walter did you get yours working?

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r Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a Configura
tion containing only that package. On that same client I have an external e
mpty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal drive. I looked at the ext
ernal drive and it has very little on it except some JAMF files. I see no e
vidence of OS install or cached files to do an install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885<tel:301-975-2885>

Compile your Lion InstallESD

http://cl.ly/2j1J2g313N09011c3x43

- Justin

[nessts]

that sounds like what happens if you run asr from a 10.6.8 machine instead of from a 10.7.x machine.

--
Todd Ness
Technology Consultant/Non-Windows Services
Americas Regional Delivery Engineering
HP Enterprise Services

--missing content--

r Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a Configura
tion containing only that package. On that same client I have an external e
mpty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal drive. I looked at the ext
ernal drive and it has very little on it except some JAMF files. I see no e
vidence of OS install or cached files to do an install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov><mailto:walter.rowe at nist.g
ov>
301-975-2885<tel:301-975-2885>

Compile your Lion InstallESD

http://cl.ly/2j1J2g313N09011c3x43

- Justin

[Walter]

I left the compile running over the weekend and it is converting to the final DMG file now. I should know later today whether it works.
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

--missing content--

r Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a Configura
tion containing only that package. On that same client I have an external e
mpty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal drive. I looked at the ext
ernal drive and it has very little on it except some JAMF files. I see no e
vidence of OS install or cached files to do an install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885<tel:301-975-2885>

Compile your Lion InstallESD

http://cl.ly/2j1J2g313N09011c3x43

- Justin

[Walter]

One more question … do you compile your images using the system super user account or your Casper admin account? I presume the Casper Admin account (that has read/write access to both the JSS and your Casper Share.
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Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

--missing content--

r Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a Configura
tion containing only that package. On that same client I have an external e
mpty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal drive. I looked at the ext
ernal drive and it has very little on it except some JAMF files. I see no e
vidence of OS install or cached files to do an install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885<tel:301-975-2885>

Compile your Lion InstallESD

http://cl.ly/2j1J2g313N09011c3x43

- Justin

[Walter]

The compile finished and wrote the final DMG. I ran Casper Imaging, selected the package, selected the client's external drive as target, selected to erase the target drive and cache the packages, and started the imaging process. It still doesn't seem to be working. It looks like it is caching the packages on the client's internal drive rather than the target drive. On the root of the client's internal drive several new folders appear that are clearly related to caching packages.

Is this expected?

I'm brand spanking new to imaging so perhaps I simply don't know what to expect. We glossed over imaging during jumpstart when we purchased Casper because we didn't expect to need it. Now I'm trying to learn it on my own and the Casper docs do not provide as much detail as I'd like.
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

--missing content--

r Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a Configura
tion containing only that package. On that same client I have an external e
mpty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal drive. I looked at the ext
ernal drive and it has very little on it except some JAMF files. I see no e
vidence of OS install or cached files to do an install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885<tel:301-975-2885>

Compile your Lion InstallESD

http://cl.ly/2j1J2g313N09011c3x43

- Justin

[ImAMacGuy]

This is what mine's doing as well. I created a 10.7 server, netbooted from it, ensured the workflow files were all on the 10.7 server, ensured it was delivering the packages (default is to our 10.6.8 primary server), brought down the workflow with installesd, and still would only boot to the recovery partition.

If I target boot and then locally run the casper imaging app, and run it through the workflow, it images fine.

John Wojda
Lead System Engineer, DEI & Mobility
3333 Beverly Rd.  B2-338B
Hoffman Estates, IL 60179
Phone:  (847)286-7855
Page:  (224)532.3447
Team Lead DEI: Matt Beiriger
Team Lead Mobility: Chris Sta Ana
                   Mac Tip/Tricks/Self Service & Support

"Any time you choose to be inflexible in your approach to an unpredictable project you are already building failure into your plan"

--missing content--

r Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a Configura
tion containing only that package. On that same client I have an external e
mpty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal drive. I looked at the ext
ernal drive and it has very little on it except some JAMF files. I see no e
vidence of OS install or cached files to do an install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885<tel:301-975-2885>

Compile your Lion InstallESD

http://cl.ly/2j1J2g313N09011c3x43

- Justin

[ImAMacGuy]

Follow up to this, I tried it again with the console open, and I got a TON of errors about InstallESD - Operation Not Permitted (Depth= 4001) Deny File-issue-extension

John Wojda
Lead System Engineer, DEI & Mobility
3333 Beverly Rd.  B2-338B
Hoffman Estates, IL 60179
Phone:  (847)286-7855
Page:  (224)532.3447
Team Lead DEI: Matt Beiriger
Team Lead Mobility: Chris Sta Ana
                   Mac Tip/Tricks/Self Service & Support

"Any time you choose to be inflexible in your approach to an unpredictable project you are already building failure into your plan"

--missing content--

r Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a Configura
tion containing only that package. On that same client I have an external e
mpty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal drive. I looked at the ext
ernal drive and it has very little on it except some JAMF files. I see no e
vidence of OS install or cached files to do an install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885<tel:301-975-2885>

Compile your Lion InstallESD

http://cl.ly/2j1J2g313N09011c3x43

- Justin

[gachowski]

Has anybody got this working?

I have tried all the the suggesting in the the thread and the best I can get is InstallESD.dmg installs on the mac to the lion restore partition….

Thanks
C

--missing content--

r Admin and it recognized it as an OS Installer. I then created a Configura
tion containing only that package. On that same client I have an external e
mpty drive. I started up Casper Imaging, selected the Lion configuration I created, pointed it at that external drive, and told it to run. I expected it would start an installation of Lion onto that empty drive as the target. It reboot my system and came up on the internal drive. I looked at the ext
ernal drive and it has very little on it except some JAMF files. I see no e
vidence of OS install or cached files to do an install.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have incorrect expectations?
--
Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov><mailto:walter.rowe at nist.g
ov>
301-975-2885<tel:301-975-2885>

Compile your Lion InstallESD

http://cl.ly/2j1J2g313N09011c3x43

- Justin