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Re: Deployment without netboot

Hi Sean,

I don't know if it is a simple solution but it is a working solution :-)

We install everything on a PowerBook or iBook. We do the tuning on that particular machine and at the end we burn a DVD. The procedure to make a distributable DVD is at the bottom (its from somewhere in the Internet but I can't remember whom to credit for). You must carefully follow all the steps otherwise you won't succeed. What you need is AppleSoftwareRestore + DVDTemplate both from Apple.

A second solution is to take the configured iBook and start it into target mode. Hook it up to the machine where you want to install new software and then you use CarbonCopyCloner and copy the important stuff to the new machine.


With both procedures be careful. After your installation you _MUST_ change at least the password for the user with administrative rights (I do not mean root here). Otherwise you will produce a lot of machines with the same user with identical passwords!

Regards,
Pierre

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This should be a fairly comprehensive list of tasks. Just in case I miss
anything, you will still want to have on hand the ASR for X Read Me file.
Especially since new information may be made available...

01. Create your build on a sample system. The unit should have a DVD drive,
or the DVD frameworks will not be installed by the OS X installer. You will
want to install, configure, and test any software that is required.

02. Once the setup has been configured and tested, you will need to clean up
a few things...
- Navigate to /System\ Folder/Apple\ Menu\ Items/ and remove
any aliases from within Recent Documents, Recent Servers, and Recent
Applications
- Navigate to /Users/username/Library/Recent\ Servers and
remove any aliases
- From the Apple Menu, select Clear Menu from the Recent
Items hierarchical menu

03. Attach your FireWire drive containing a blessed Mac OS 9 System Folder,
the latest ASR for X, the latest Disk Copy, and the full suite of Norton
Utilities

04. Log out; log in as >console (note: this requires that you have set the
Login Window System Preferences to either Display Login Window as Name and
password entry fields, or Show "Other User" in list). While logged in as
console, type:
sudo -s <return>
rm /private/var/vm/swapfile* <return>
rm /private/var/db/volinfo.database <return>

**if, and only if, you want the restored systems to boot into Setup
Assistant, type:
rm /private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone

otherwise, finish by typing...
/sbin/shutdown -r now <return> <-- this will cause the system to restart.
Get ready to hold down the option key!

05. Hold down the option key as the computer starts up. Select the
appropriate hard drive icon to boot from your FireWire drive.

06. Run Disk First Aid, Norton Disk Doctor, testing the drive to be imaged.

07. Run Speed Disk, setting the preferences to optimize for Disk Resizing
(and erase empty space if you have extra time to kill).

08. Launch Disk Copy (6.5b13 or later). Select "Set UDIF segment size" from
the Scripts menu and type -1. This will turn off segmentation so that your
image will be in one segment.

09. Select "Create image from folder" from the Image menu. Select the source
volume and set the format for Read-only compressed. Also select zero all
data, but deselect mount image. Name your restore image and click Save (FYI
- you need at least twice as much free disk space as is estimated for the
size of the image). Take a nap.

10. Select "Scan X + 9 for ASR" from the Scripts menu and select your new
restore image. Go get coffee.

11. Once your image is ready, you will move to the system on which you have
a SuperDrive - your DVD build system. This should also be running Mac OS 9
(not as Classic, but booted from OS 9). You can shut down the system you
used to build your restore image. Disconnect the FireWire drive and plug it
into your DVD build system.

12. Obtain the read-only DVD template (a copy is in my drop box... use
Connect to Server to access donnafm.apple.com).

13. Launch Disk Copy (6.5b13 or later). Just to be sure, select "Set UDIF
segment size" from the Scripts menu and type -1 to turn off segmentation.
Select "Convert Image..." from the Image menu. Select the DVD template, type
in an appropriate name and select read/write as the format for your new DVD
master. Click Save.

14. If it did not automatically mount, double-click the new DVD master to
mount this image. Place within this all files needed for ASR...
- Apple Software Restore (application) <- copy from previous restore DVD
- ASR Prefs (preferences) <- copy from previous restore DVD
- Configurations (folder) <- move your restore image into this folder
- System Folder (a universal Mac OS 9.x.x system)
- Utilities (folder, not essential but recommended to include Disk Copy
and Startup Disk)

15. Launch Disk Copy and select the script "02 Clean up a mounted
(d)image". This will unmount the image. Select "Convert Image..." from the
Image menu. Select the DVD master image, change the extension to .toast or
.cdr and set the format as CD-R master. Click Save.

16. To burn your DVDs from the master, you can either use Toast (in 9 or X),
or Disk Copy in X.

On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 04:19 PM, Sean Keesler wrote:

In the past I have enjoyed the ease of using Disk Copy to make <2GB
images of hard drives for a set of iBooks running OS9. Life was good.

How is everyone deploying OS X images? The images are much larger than
2GB (in fact, my setup with apps runs well over 4 Gig). What am I
missing? I really don't have access to a NetBoot server (yet)...but
there must be a simple solution to this simple problem...

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Field Coordinator
The Living SchoolBook
Syracuse University
School of Education
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Syracuse, NY 13244-2340
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