[Rockies-Edu] How do you create your images?
[Rockies-Edu] How do you create your images?
- Subject: [Rockies-Edu] How do you create your images?
- From: "Shock, Christine" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:45:29 -0600
- Thread-topic: How do you create your images?
I seem to have hit a bit of an impasse with my IT department.
The way I was taught to perform imaging for Macs was to:
Start with completely wiped tower and do a fresh install of the OS.
Bring down all upgrades to the OS and install.
Run Disk Utility, Onyx, and Mac Janitor to repair permissions, clean out
cashes, and set up a maintenance routine for the semester.
Install base image items like font management, drivers for scanners &
printers (yes, epsons require drivers on the Mac Side), ppd's, Adobe
reader, additional web browsers, etc.
Once this is complete, use this base image to create different room
images with licensed software appropriate for each individual room being
imaged.
How my IT department would like to proceed is:
Create a base image in the fall semester which could be used for both
fall and spring semester. Store the fall base image for 15 weeks and
then bring down all the updates, run cocktail, and reinstall the
applications to the base image that was created in the fall.
My concerns are that the image did not receive the nightly cron scripts
and while cocktail is a good product, it is not perfect and 2 that if
there are items in the base image that require serial numbers, etc. the
redeployment of the old image will retain the serial number information
and may not let us reinstall anything with a license code.
So my question to this group is...do you recycle images or do you create
a spankin' fresh new image every semester?
Christine Shock
Program Chair, Multimedia-Gaming-Design & Photography
Red Rocks Community College
13300 West 6th Avenue
Lakewood, CO 80228
303-914-6613
303-219-0175
email@hidden
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