[Lion Disk Maker For Mac
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Anyway enough with the nostalgia, I had to create a couple of Lion USB Boot Disks at work and as well know, Lion has to be downloaded and it is apparently hardware specific as well (the downloaded dmg)
Lion DiskMaker 2( -diskmaker-us/) does the job very well, I had no problem creating a drive with a DMG for MacPro a couple of months ago, but yesterday I downloaded the DMG image for my Macbook and I found Lion DiskMaker 2 complaining about:
Now, my opinion is you don't want to do monolithic images. This way everything is modular and sure it may be a bit more leg work up front, but in the long run it is much less work and more efficient - in my opinion and experience. What I do is create a pristine image of OS X and all apps that are standard on every Mac. I do this via InstaDMG and Casper Admin. Also, there are no users created in the image and it has never been booted.
Then I create user accounts post image via scripts. That way if a password leak every happens I don't have to go in and change my image, I can just change the scripts. I can also deploy password changes through a casper policy if a password gets leaked while the bulk of the machines are in production.
i regularly bake base images for clients with small site specific changes, and it's generally a start-it-and-walk-away task. you want to get to the point where building this stuff isn't costly for you.
I moved t a modular workflow and use nothing but apple OS disks, and the latest combo update. As Tom said, you then end up with an un-booted disk image that can be used in the Casper image workflow. No open source software is required. I believe it just makes it easier to pre-apply some of the software updates I end up applying post imaging
Everything else is layered on top during the imaging or during the first boot of the machine (like local admin accounts, ssh access, ARD settings etc). If something small changes, only the one piece of the workflow has to be changed. You should try it. It makes going forward with both big and small easy.
Do you use InstaDMG Aaron or just the Install disks and upload to Casper Imaging? If using the Install DVD to Casper Imaging which grey DVD do you use as often they are hardware model specific? and how do you apply combo updates?
I really like the sound of making cleaner installs but not sure the process of the grey hardware specific DVD, enabling and setting the root user account password and combining combo updates in the workflow as a lot of the grey disks look like 10.6.4 or something like that.
Then once I have my 10.x.x OS image file with all the proper updates applied I drop that into Casper Admin. Then I start adding packages and compiling them into a base image. This base image is what I will use on every Mac, and it works on every Mac. We have 14,000 macs here, a mixture of 3 different models of iMacs, two different models of Mac Minis, 3 different models of Macbooks, and now we have Macbook Airs in the mix. My image works on every system no problem.
The one caveat is, that if you compile a 10.5 image on a 10.6 machine it will kernel panic every machine you image it with. This is because JAMF uses the apple installer to compile your packages and OS image files, and the apple installer sets this file to be booted (via scan for restore) and the installer sets different drives for different OSes. So, if you are going to have multiple versions of the OS (ie 10.5, 10.6, 10.7) develop each one on the actual OS you are deploying.
I install the OS from a retail disk (not sure if that actually matters), restart from another boot drive, (keeping the fresh install from booting) then install the latest combo OS update (10.6.8v1) to the new install drive. At that point I use composer to grab an OS image of the fresh install and have what I need to use as a source for the MacOS netinstall creator. I select my new OS image as the source , let it run, and upload to my NetBoot server.
On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:11 PM, "Tim Kimpton" wrote:
After imaging, i end up with a 10.6.8 install with no other updates. Those happen postimage, downloading from the SUS server. Local admin accounts, binding to AD, ARD all happen postimage. Apps are mostly all packages that get installed during the imaging or sometimes after, depending on what they are.
With the updates to instaDMG does it allow for the recovery partition on
Lion? Looking on their website was a little cryptic on if it works or
not. But I'm having a hell of a time with the compile image after
moving to 8.31, I must have done about 10 images yesterday and not a
single one has worked (3 didn't complete making them, 4 of them
completed but when booted went straight to the Select a Language screen
then to the recovery partition, and 3 would boot to the login screen but
wouldn't run any of the login scripts - such as the time zone. When I
would try to log in as the casper jss account, the login window would
grey out, but never bring up the desktop.
I have yet to mess with Lion. Last I read InstaDMG works with Lion but
there are a few "gotchas." I am going to set up a Lion machine here
soon to start testing since we will probably migrate to lion over this
next summer.
I've used instaDMG for years, but at this point I've switched over to casper imaging only.
Right now, instaDMG works with lion but does not create the recovery partition. If you create the recovery partition manually on the disk first, instaDMG will leave it there.
As far as casper, the only problem I've found with the installESD files is that the 'ensure computers imaged with this configuration are managed' setting does not take effect. My current work around is to include my quick add package in the configuration, and installed at boot time. That does create the management account and sets up the casper jss connection successfully.
I do not use net boot, though, all our imaging is done with USB drives that are replicated from my distribution point with casper admin.
nick
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Nick Kalister
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Hitachi Data Systems
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on a related note, instadmg worked fine for me in limited testing generating a 10.7.2 base image the other day. it doesn't create the recovery partition, but then again, that's not generally something it would do anyway. its purpose is to automate creation of a never booted volume with the os, updates, and other payloads, which it does.
Check out Lion Disk Maker. Ignore all other instructions you see on the
internet to make a bootable usb and DVD. If you follow those guides you will
miss the essential OSInstall.mpkg and then during install it downloads it
from Apple. I know this because I am behind a proxy and ge the proxy prompts
going mad.
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Happy Mountain Lion Day! Now that you have downloaded the 4.34GB installer, you may want to install Mountain Lion on more than one of your personal machines. Do you really need to wait 45 minutes or more for each one? Absolutely not! Just make your own bootable install disk using our handy tutorial.
Important warning: the OS X installer will delete the necessary file needed to make your own install disk once it runs. Therefore, you need to either make a copy of the installer outside of the Applications folder or make your install disk before upgrading.
Just download the Lion Diskmaker app, unzip it, and run it. You'll basically need to click four buttons: "10.8 Mountain Lion," "Use this copy," "Create a boot disk," and, if you're using a USB flash drive as recommended, "An 8 GB USB thumb drive." It's really that simple; Lion Diskmaker takes care of the rest. The process will take about 30 minutes or so using USB 2.0 (it should be faster if you have a USB 3.0-compatible flash drive and newer Mac).
Start by right-clicking (or control-clicking) on the "Install OS X Mountain Lion" app, which should be in your main "Applications" folder after downloading. Navigate to Contents > Shared Support, and you should see a disk image called "InstallESD.dmg." We will restore this disk image to our flash drive (or other disk) using Disk Utlity.
Then launch Disk Utility. If you're using a USB flash drive or other external disk, you'll need to make sure it's formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)." Under the partition options, also make sure the partition type is set to "GUID Partition Table," otherwise it won't be able to boot an Intel-based Mac.
Drag and drop the "InstallESD.dmg" into the "Source" box in Disk Utility. Then click the "Restore" button on the toolbar. Drag your newly formatted drive into the "Destination" box, and click the "Restore" button. The process should take about 30 minutes or so, less if your drive is particularly speedy.
As with Lion, the install disk includes the same options as the emergency recovery partition created when you install Lion or Mountain Lion. With it, you'll be able to use Safari to find troubleshooting information, run Disk Utility to fix filesystem errors, restore from a Time Machine backup, or install Mountain Lion from scratch on any compatible Mac.
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