[Casper] Casper failing to deploy base OS package PS

[Clare Bartlet]

  PS - forgot to say we are using Casper v 5.13


On 23 Jul 2008, at 12:35, Clare Bartlet wrote:

>
> We have been finding that Casper is very unreliable with deploying  
> the base OS package - has anyone else seen this happen?
>
> We are in the process of a round of image deployment to our 180  
> public Macs and we have seen that over 10% of the time Casper will  
> fail to deploy the base OS.  We currently have one of our sites  
> where 5 out of their 14 Macs are repeatedly failing in this way...
> Our setup is that we netboot the iMacs in order to image them and  
> the sequence that we observe is that Casper says it is doing a block  
> copy of the OS (despite the fact that the 'No Block Copy' file is in  
> Casper.app/contents/resources), this then fails and Casper formats  
> the hard disk and then it should deploy the base OS before doing all  
> the application packages however this does not always happen...
>
> We cannot see a pattern to when this occurs -  eg it doesn't seem to  
> be related to server load. Sometimes it happens repeatedly on one  
> Mac and other times when a Mac is reimaged again all is fine without  
> making any other changes.
>
> We know that Casper has been released but it's really not possible  
> for us to move to a new Casper version right in the middle of an  
> imaging round.
>
> Sent to the list for comment from others please and also to jamf  
> support so that we can get help in resolving this problem as soon as  
> possible
>
> many thanks
> Clare
>
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> Clare Bartlet                                     mailto:cpb10 at cam.ac.uk
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