OS Imaging

[pbachuwa]

Hello all

We have been creating our images by taking the latest hardware that we
have and customizing it however we want and then copying it into the
Casper Admin, We have been experiencing some issues now and then and the
Apple engineer says we shouldn't do it that way. Is there a way to just
upload the DVD's that come with the new hardware without creating an
image from a specific computer?

Patrick Bachuwa

Client Technical Services

Sears Holdings Corporation

Michigan Campus

3000 W. 14 Mile Road

Royal Oak, MI 48073-1717

Phone: 248 637-0350

[Bukira]

Hi Patrick,

Yes but i prefer to do it your way and it works flawlessly so what
issues are you having?

Regards

Criss

Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
iPhone Developer
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Development Team
Adelphi Building AB28
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
Ex 5054
01772 895054

[tlarkin]

Patrick-

Take a look at the insatDMG python scripts. It will create an
up-to-date OS image from the retail OS X DVD. All you have to do is run
two scripts and it is all automated. Then you can take that image and
drop it into Casper Admin and compile it with all your base packages and
create a base compiled system image.

[pbachuwa]

Thanks for your assistance; we will give that a try.

Patrick Bachuwa

Client Technical Services

Sears Holdings Corporation

Michigan Campus

3000 W. 14 Mile Road

Royal Oak, MI 48073-1717

Phone: 248 637-0350

[talkingmoose]

Just something to keep in mind...
On 7/1/10 7:05 AM, "Bachuwa, Patrick" <Patrick.Bachuwa at searshc.com> wrote:

While I've never tried taking an OEM disk and putting it into Casper, I
would doubt this works for anything other than that specific hardware.
Most, if not all, of Apple's OEM disks are tied to the hardware and will
not install on different hardware.

So long as you have your retail Mac OS installer available for the rest of
your machines and you have the disk space for both DVD .dmg files then I
see no reason why this shouldn't work for you.

-- 

William Smith
Technical Analyst
MCS IT, Saint Paul
(651) 632-1492

[tlarkin]

The TPM is in the OS restore DVDs and if you create an image you can
still block copy that image to another Mac. InstaDMG recommends you use
the retail versions of the OS discs, but I have used a drop in DVD
before and it block copies to all my Macs, regardless of model. Now if
may not function properly if you use an older OS and block copy it to
one of the current Macs.