[Casper] Imaging from Restore Partition

[Cyrus Vahhaji]

Craig,

Thanx for your feedback. Did forget to clarify a couple of items in my
original post which you brought up. They are:
* no packages are being cached.
* in the last instance I¹ve run across this issue I had Final Cut Pro as
part of the configuration. I¹ve  run across this issue before without Final
Cut Pro too. 
* I was only  imaging one machine, not a whole lab.
* Working on getting away from using Restore partition as soon as I can
setup a SUS.

Thanx



From: "Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:44:43 -0500
To: Casper List <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [Casper] Imaging from Restore Partition

Are you caching packages? If so then as larger packages get expanded to be
installed they take up space on that drive temporarily. For example...if you
have a large package like Creative Suite 3.

The solution...bigger Restore partitions, or don¹t cache packages. We
increased our Restores from 10GB to 25GB a while back...this will also help
when you move to Leopard.

If you aren¹t caching...no idea accept maybe a VERY large package you
deploy.

Unless you re-image large numbers of machines at one time, like labs, or
don¹t have large amounts of bandwidth to your file server for the JSS, then
caching isn¹t really necessary IMO. We actually started to not put on a
Restore partition in our faculty office installs since NetInstall images do
what we need them to for imaging on a one at time basis as they typically
are.

Labs still use a restore so I don¹t kill the file server when I launch a lab
of 30 machines, at least when there aren¹t many package changes since last
time. =)

Hope that helps.

Craig


On 3/15/08 10:08 PM, "Cyrus Vahhaji" <Cyrus.Vahhaji at bestbuy.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Wondering if anyone on the list utilizes a restore partition for imaging their
> machines. If so, dose Casper prompt you that you are running out of disk space
> during imaging? If so, is there a way to prevent getting this message? If not,
> any way to work around it? My restore partition is 10 GB and restore and have
> a pretty stripped down OS for restore. Currently using Casper 4.1, OS 10.4.10.
> 
> Any input is appreciated.
> 
> Thanx,
> Cyrus


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