[Casper] Erase new HD prior to imaging

[Leacy, Miles]

Sure, here you go...

diskutil partitionDisk disk0 3 HFS+ Macintosh\ HD 40G HFS+ Restore 20G HFS+
Data 0b

As you can see, I use 3 partitions.  Macintosh HD is the boot drive.  40GB
is more than enough for the system and apps in my environment,  The 20GB
Restore partition is a Casper restore partition.  It doe an autologin as
root and has Casper.app as a startup item.  The Data partition is where
/Users is redirected via a symlink, and the 0b notation means ³all remaining
space on the device².

On 5/28/08 12:27 PM, "John Wetter" <john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us> wrote:

> Miles,
> 
> Would you mind posting your preflight script?
> 
> -John
> 
> 
> On 5/28/08 11:09 AM, "Leacy, Miles" <Miles.Leacy at PoloRalphLauren.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/28/08 12:00 PM, "Sandy J. Hinding" <sjhinding at isd194.k12.mn.us> wrote:
>>> > Why am I the only one seeing this?
>> 
>> You¹re not.  I¹ve encountered this same issue, and on investigation, some
>> machines were coming out of the factory with odd drive formats.  That¹s why I
>> suggested the diskutil preflight script.  It¹s what I used to solve the
>> problem.
>> 
>>> >The Erase HD option in CASPER does not seem to be sufficient, but if we use
>>> DISK Utility they go. What is the difference?
>> 
>> The difference between Casper and Disk Utility is that Casper erases an
>> existing partition (like the ³Erase² tab in Disk Utility).  With diskutil,
>> you can repartition, creating the correct partition setup (like the
>> ³Partition tab in Disk Utility).
>> 
>> I hope this helps.

-- 
Miles Leacy
Senior Mac Technologist
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