Posted on 06-24-2009 02:55 PM
Greetings.
I was wondering if any of you have tips on shrinking the netboot image that Casper Imaging runs off of. I made a minimal leopard install (ie. OS with no printer drivers, languages, or X11) and created a netinstall set with Casper NetInstal Creator 2.02 (from the Resource Kit). The resulting spareimage file in the .nbi directory is 6.76 GB.
On an iBook G4 that I've netbooted in verbose mode, it is saying, "uid 0 on /private/tmp: file system full", and it seems plausible that a smaller netinstall set might alleviate this.
Cheers,
Clinton Blackmore
Posted on 06-24-2009 03:31 PM
i just deleted all the unnecessary apps out of the application and the utilities folder before running thr net install creatir i think i left terminal and system prefs. everything works fine since casper imaging takes care of everything.
jorge
Posted on 06-25-2009 08:00 AM
This is what I remove. I don't recommend removing all of this stuff unless you're sure you don't need it, but for what I do I remove all the following and it shaves about 2.5 GB off the install.
/Applications (Erase all Except Casper Imaging, System Preferences,
Utilities)
/Applications/Utilities (Erase all except Activity Monitor, Console, Disk
Utility, System Profiler, Terminal)
/Library/Application Support
/Library/Desktop Pictures
/Library/Dictionaries
/Library/Documentation
/Library/Fonts
/Library/Image Capture
/Library/Internet Plugins
/Library/iTunes
/Library/Mail
/Library/Receipts
/Library/Scripts
/Library/Spotlight
/Library/Updates
/Library/User Pictures
/Library/WebServer
/Library/Widgets
/System/Library/Automator
/System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
/System/Library/Image Capture
/System/Library/Input Methods
/System/Library/Podcast Producer
/System/Library/Printers
/System/Library/Screensavers
/System/Library/Screen Reader
/System/Library/Services
/System/Library/Sounds
/System/Library/Speech
/System/Library/Spotlight
/System/Library/User Template
Posted on 06-25-2009 10:46 AM
Now that is quite the list. Thank you!
Clinton
Posted on 07-02-2009 02:23 PM
Three updates to this problem:
- Using the NetInstall Creator 3.0 from the June 2009 resource kit
will allow the system to netboot.
- I've been told that having unnecessary files in your netboot image
does not actually slow down the bootup process.
- It turns out this machine only had 128 MB of RAM. I'm amazed it
would boot into Leopard at all!
Clinton Blackmore