[Casper] Computer Name is not populating when imaging

[Smith, William]

On Wednesday 11/12/08 7:24 AM, "Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> wrote:

> I don¹t think it was too long...very similar to how my responses get
> sometimes. =)
> 
> And I can agree that perhaps it is a good topic for a CUG, but I wanted to
> bring it up here as well because I think this is the perfect venue to share
> this information and what it was intended for. It helps educate us all on
> making the right decisions and using the right tools.

Glad you found it useful. My verbosity is often parallel to my interest in
the subject.:-)
 
> I assume that you still need to build this virgin image on the latest
> hardware? I don¹t have to make new OS images often so I¹ve never really tried
> to improve the process.

I think the hardware issues where you wanted to build on the latest and
greatest machine in your fleet were primarily limited to Mac OS X 10.4.
That's why I'm only doing this with Leopard. But I couldn't find anything to
reinforce my thinking on this. Building on the latest Mac OS is more
important. The hardware of the machine doesn't come into play at all when
using InstaDMG.
 
> When I tried to download InstaDMG from Sourceforge it wasn¹t available...=/

I think it's now completely on AFP548.com. This is the latest release
<http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20080916222225163&query=instadmg>.

Support is sparse and really only done through the AFP548.com forums. Lots
of folks are contributing their experiences, ideas and helper scripts. One
person has provided a CreateUser.pkg package that you can modify to create
that first user (probably your Casper admin user account) and others give
advice for preventing the startup movie. Things like that.

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492