[Casper] using Casper to upgrade to leopard

[John Brenner]

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


On 1/25/08 11:18 AM, "Smith, William" <william.smith at merrillcorp.com> wrote:

> On 1/25/08 10:34 AM, "Siddhartha Chadda" <SChadda at oco.com> wrote:
> 
>> how do we leverage casper to upgrade to leopard? without loosing user
>> profiles? 
>> 
> I¹d never upgrade machines from one OS to another. Too much potential to go
> 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 don¹t do that here for no other reason than we just haven¹t been doing it
> that way. I¹ve been meaning to create some sort of XCode wrapper around some
> snippets of code I use now to back up user folders using ³ditto² into separate
> .cpgz archive files, restoring them afterward and reapplying ownership for
> each. I¹m surprised I¹ve never found anything for Mac OS X to ³migrate² home
> folders. Windows has several alternatives.


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John Brenner
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-4072

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