I am having a hard time determining if Deploy Studio can deploy images to a
Mac with a Windows Bootcamp partition installed. Can it be used to image
the Windows BootCamp partition and deploy it to other Macs in a lab?
--
Susan Alston
Internet Developer/Blackboard Administrator
110 McSweeney
Chowan University
252-398-6263
Yes. We currently do this in two labs, although we partition and image
both parts of the machine as part of the same workflow.
-- Bruce Carter, Center for Creative Computing,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
On 6/21/12 3:27 PM, "Susan Alston" <als...@CHOWAN.EDU> wrote:
>I am having a hard time determining if Deploy Studio can deploy images to
>a
>Mac with a Windows Bootcamp partition installed. Can it be used to image
>the Windows BootCamp partition and deploy it to other Macs in a lab?
Note that if you use the DeployStudio option to wipe a drive, then partition it,
restore OS X, restore the Lion Recovery HD (it's a checkbox now), and restore
the Windows volume, the Recovery HD's BSD disk identifier is temporarily
/dev/diskns4 (where n is the disk number), but after a reboot, it is /dev/diskns3.
This throws off restoration of the Windows volume.
So the choice is to either not restore the Recovery HD, or to restore the Windows
volume after the Mac reboots into the OS X volume.
> I am having a hard time determining if Deploy Studio can deploy images to a
> Mac with a Windows Bootcamp partition installed. Can it be used to image
> the Windows BootCamp partition and deploy it to other Macs in a lab?
> --
> Susan Alston
> Internet Developer/Blackboard Administrator
> 110 McSweeney
> Chowan University
> 252-398-6263
> Note that if you use the DeployStudio option to wipe a drive, then partition it,
> restore OS X, restore the Lion Recovery HD (it's a checkbox now), and restore
> the Windows volume, the Recovery HD's BSD disk identifier is temporarily
> /dev/diskns4 (where n is the disk number), but after a reboot, it is /dev/diskns3.
> This throws off restoration of the Windows volume.
> So the choice is to either not restore the Recovery HD, or to restore the Windows
> volume after the Mac reboots into the OS X volume.
Another option is to restore the Windows image first, then restore the Mac image and Recovery HD. That way, the Windows partition is the first setup and built. That fixes the issue with Recovery HD.
I have a dual-boot imaging setup for our visitor Macs (using Windows XP and 10.7.4) set up that way. It also allows me to use a modular deployment approach for the Mac partition because I can tell the various steps to use "Previous task target" for the target volume in DeployStudio.
> On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Susan Alston wrote:
>> I am having a hard time determining if Deploy Studio can deploy images to a
>> Mac with a Windows Bootcamp partition installed. Can it be used to image
>> the Windows BootCamp partition and deploy it to other Macs in a lab?
>> --
>> Susan Alston
>> Internet Developer/Blackboard Administrator
>> 110 McSweeney
>> Chowan University
>> 252-398-6263
> > Note that if you use the DeployStudio option to wipe a drive, then
> partition it,
> > restore OS X, restore the Lion Recovery HD (it's a checkbox now), and
> restore
> > the Windows volume, the Recovery HD's BSD disk identifier is temporarily
> > /dev/diskns4 (where n is the disk number), but after a reboot, it is
> /dev/diskns3.
> > This throws off restoration of the Windows volume.
> > So the choice is to either not restore the Recovery HD, or to restore
> the Windows
> > volume after the Mac reboots into the OS X volume.
> Another option is to restore the Windows image first, then restore the Mac
> image and Recovery HD. That way, the Windows partition is the first setup
> and built. That fixes the issue with Recovery HD.
> I have a dual-boot imaging setup for our visitor Macs (using Windows XP
> and 10.7.4) set up that way. It also allows me to use a modular deployment
> approach for the Mac partition because I can tell the various steps to use
> "Previous task target" for the target volume in DeployStudio.
> Thanks,
> Rich
> > On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Susan Alston wrote:
> >> I am having a hard time determining if Deploy Studio can deploy images
> to a
> >> Mac with a Windows Bootcamp partition installed. Can it be used to
> image
> >> the Windows BootCamp partition and deploy it to other Macs in a lab?
> >> --
> >> Susan Alston
> >> Internet Developer/Blackboard Administrator
> >> 110 McSweeney
> >> Chowan University
> >> 252-398-6263
>If Deploy Studio can reimage and deploy both the Mac partition and the
>Windows partition, what is the purpose of purchasing Winclone Pro?
>On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Trouton, Rich R
><trout...@janelia.hhmi.org>wrote:
>> On Jun 25, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Arek Dreyer wrote:
>> > See http://twocanoes.com/asset.php?id=17 >> > Using DeployStudio and Winclone Pro to image a lab of dual-boot Macs
>> > Note that if you use the DeployStudio option to wipe a drive, then
>> partition it,
>> > restore OS X, restore the Lion Recovery HD (it's a checkbox now), and
>> restore
>> > the Windows volume, the Recovery HD's BSD disk identifier is
>>temporarily
>> > /dev/diskns4 (where n is the disk number), but after a reboot, it is
>> /dev/diskns3.
>> > This throws off restoration of the Windows volume.
>> > So the choice is to either not restore the Recovery HD, or to restore
>> the Windows
>> > volume after the Mac reboots into the OS X volume.
>> Another option is to restore the Windows image first, then restore the
>>Mac
>> image and Recovery HD. That way, the Windows partition is the first
>>setup
>> and built. That fixes the issue with Recovery HD.
>> I have a dual-boot imaging setup for our visitor Macs (using Windows XP
>> and 10.7.4) set up that way. It also allows me to use a modular
>>deployment
>> approach for the Mac partition because I can tell the various steps to
>>use
>> "Previous task target" for the target volume in DeployStudio.
>> Thanks,
>> Rich
>> > On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Susan Alston wrote:
>> >> I am having a hard time determining if Deploy Studio can deploy
>>images
>> to a
>> >> Mac with a Windows Bootcamp partition installed. Can it be used to
>> image
>> >> the Windows BootCamp partition and deploy it to other Macs in a lab?
> If Deploy Studio can reimage and deploy both the Mac partition and the
> Windows partition, what is the purpose of purchasing Winclone Pro?
Great question -
You use Winclone to make an image of a Windows volume on a Mac.
You use Winclone to restore the image to another Mac.
The license for Winclone allows you to use Winclone on two Macs.
You use Winclone Pro to add the self-extraction pieces to your Winclone image
so you no longer need Winclone to *restore* the Winclone image.
Arek Dreyer, Dreyer Network Consultants, Inc.
Apple Certified System Administrator
a...@arekdreyer.com 773-251-8931
It still sounds like: 1) Winclone Pro can do both the create image and
deploy on its own, and 2) Deploy Studio can do both the create image and
deploy image on its own to me. Is using Winclone to restore the image more
involved than Deploy Studio?
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Arek Dreyer <a...@arekdreyer.com> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Susan Alston wrote:
> > If Deploy Studio can reimage and deploy both the Mac partition and the
> > Windows partition, what is the purpose of purchasing Winclone Pro?
> Great question -
> You use Winclone to make an image of a Windows volume on a Mac.
> You use Winclone to restore the image to another Mac.
> The license for Winclone allows you to use Winclone on two Macs.
> You use Winclone Pro to add the self-extraction pieces to your Winclone
> image
> so you no longer need Winclone to *restore* the Winclone image.
> Arek Dreyer, Dreyer Network Consultants, Inc.
> Apple Certified System Administrator
> a...@arekdreyer.com 773-251-8931
