[Casper] Imaging Issues with new Intel Mac Books

[John Brenner]

We have had the same issue, I am unsure as to what is going on and haven't
had time to dig around although off the cuff the biggest change in Leopard
was ACLs and that would be my first place to look.


On 3/10/08 9:58 AM, "Weber, Jason" <Jason.Weber at district196.org> wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone else out there has been having troubles with
> imaging the new Intel Mac Books with Leopard 10.5.2 using Casper??
> 
> Computer Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4, with the X3100 graphics card (Newest
> Mac Book)
> 
> The issue we are having with this newest batch of notebooks, is that when we
> try to push Leopard to them via Casper the image fails.
> 
> After the imaging process appears to complete and then reboot, the system
> hangs.  Looking into it further, by booting via a firewire drive we noticed
> that the full system does not copy onto the computer. The only thing on the
> drive is the Library folder.
> 
> If we use a disk copy and image via firewire or just do a standard DVD
> install, the OS works just fine. So it appears that its something during the
> Casper push.
> 
> We have used this configuration on other Intel Macs and it works as it
> should. It's just this most recent batch that this has started.
> 
> We have tried building a new image (built on the new MacBooks), loading that
> into the JSS directory and using that. Exact same results..
> 
> I also checked for firmware updates on the machines. None were available.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this??  Any ideas??