using casper to upgrade to leopard

[#1]

how do we leverage casper to upgrade to leopard? without loosing user profiles?

Siddhartha Chadda
Chief Technology Officer
OLSON
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[talkingmoose]

I'd never upgrade machines from one OS to another. Too much potential to go
On 1/25/08 10:34 AM, "Siddhartha Chadda" <SChadda at oco.com> wrote:
wrong.

JAMF suggests partitioning drives into three parts: Mac OS X and
applications, a hidden Restore partition and a Data partition for user
folders. Doing this proactively means you never touch the home folders when
re-imaging machines.

We don't do that here for no other reason than we just haven't been doing it
that way. I've been meaning to create some sort of XCode wrapper around some
snippets of code I use now to back up user folders using 'ditto' into
separate .cpgz archive files, restoring them afterward and reapplying
ownership for each. I'm surprised I've never found anything for Mac OS X to
'migrate' home folders. Windows has several alternatives.

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bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
Digital Information Systems Support
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492

[#3]

Are you doing domain authentication either AD or OD or are these stand alone
workstations? If so you have some options.

[#4]

If you are doing domain or OD authentication and the goal is to retain user
settings them you should be able to turn on Portable home directories,
reformat, partition to a restore and Macintosh HD and install.