[Casper] Dual booting Macbooks!!!!

[Thomas Larkin]

Nataniel-

that is pretty much exactly what I want to do.  If you can shoot me some example scripts that would be greatly appreciated!  I did pretty much the same thing with an iMac lab in the past and used Bombich's boot picker but you have to leave firmware wide open for that.  I know that I could create a casper policy that will reboot to said volume, but how do you force the windows side to boot back into OS X?  

Hmm, I just had an idea.  If I created a casper policy (this will only work in version 6) with self service that would allow the user to reboot into windows via self service.  Then create a windows reboot policy in the OS that would reboot the machine every day automatically at 3pm would mean when they are out of school it would reboot back into the default start up volume, which would be OS X.....

This is not how anyone would want to normally operate but I have no choice.  Last thing I want is the board of education pissed at us because we can't use their approved, but unsupported old as dirt legacy software, and the developer is no help and there is no way to migrate the old databases to any newer or other technologies....

Basically, at this point I am just wanting it to work, no matter how ridiculous it gets.

thanks

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
cell:  913-449-7589
office:  913-627-0351
>>> <NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org> 06/30/08 2:54 PM >>>
Tom,
Back to your original question, if you have to make the Dual-Boot macs. 
With the help of JAMF, we have a after restore action script that Casper 
calls during imaging to restore a compressed NTFS image of a WinXP Macbook 
(Sysprep'd).    After imaging the Mac sides, it resizes the volume, then 
images the Windows side and restarts to Windows.   We still have to post 
process both the Mac side and the Windows side of the computer, but 
usually it is only a couple steps each.  It's worked pretty well when the 
volumes sizes are large enough and the hardware is similar.  Slow, too.
We usually do both the Mac and WinXp side at the same time, but I suppose 
you could do just a Window partition since it can resize the volume on 
non-destructively now.   I don't know how it would work with OpenFirmware 
locked since we don't do that.


Nathaniel Lindley

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Learning Systems Specialist
Educational Technology
Saint Paul Public Schools
Saint Paul, Minnesota
nathaniel.lindley at spps.org
phone:  651-603-4929



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Due to powers that be it looks like I must load Windows on all of our 
Macbooks for one piece of software.  This is a critical piece of software 
that our users need and there is no alternative, for a long story short. 
So, the software company that is in question is offering to pay for 90% of 
the costs for windows licenses for one year until they migrate their 
product to a web based one.

So, I must add boot camp, add win xp, add sys prep and the Novell client, 
and all that stuff.

Can I just take an OS snap shot of Windows with composer?

has anyone used casper to deploy dual booting images?

I would rather not do this but i don't think I have a choice and it is a 
high priority project so I will be focusing all my time on it.

In the past I have done this with Bombich's software and some of his 
scripts and successfully deployed a dual booting iMac lab.  However, due 
to these all being laptops I need to maintain security on them.  Opening 
up the firmware is not really an option for me.

I could use some feed back, and a glass of whiskey.

Thanks,

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
cell:  913-449-7589
office:  913-627-0351
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