netboot - disk almost full error

[jarednichols]

Hi-

My Netboot computers are getting a "disk almost full" error at the login screen. Any ideas why this may be? I set up my brandy-new 13" MBP as the machine to snap the Netboot image from and it was working just fine. The image is setup as diskless in Server Admin.

Thanks
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

[dderusha]

Hi-

did you use the Casper Netinstall Image Creator? Information is available in the Casper Tool Kit

In the past we had issues with netboot images and needing to pad them.
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story050930213352777

the netinstall creator took care of this issue (it did for us).

Dan De Rusha
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[jarednichols]

Interesting info…

No, I used the regular System Image Utility. I'm not sure that "pad" is the problem though because there's just over a gig free. Is that not enough? I have another netboot image where this isn't a problem and I created it in the same way.

Thanks
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

[Bukira]

Hi

It uses /tmp to store packages that it installs, /tmp will be in the netinstall image,

Maybe you have very large packages, maybe dmg's that need to be stored locally before they are installed

Regards

Criss

[jarednichols]

Got it sorted out. Dustin suggested:

To stretch a NetBoot image
1. Open up a terminal window.
2. Type:
sudo hdiutil resize -size 6g /path/to/image/file
NOTE: 6g is simply a suggestion. This size may vary depending on OS. The current OS
NOTE: the path to the image file is usually something like: /Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/ImageName.nbi/System.dmg
And that worked.

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]

Dusty, not Dustin… I stink.

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

[dderusha]

I want to say we had 4GB previous to using the Netinstall image creator.
JAMF introduced a Netinstall Launch Pad into the image and it's awesome!
The previous version would quit into terminal where you had to issue a reboot command.
A pain if you just modified one of your configurations after you authenticated Casper.

Now you can quit Casper, and it opens the Launch Pad. From the launch pad you can re-open casper Imaging with the configuration showing up properly.

I would recommend using it.

Dan De Rusha
I.T. SPECIALIST

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[dderusha]

Nice!

Dan De Rusha
I.T. SPECIALIST

SCHAWK!