[Casper] Erasing the Hard Drive During Imaging while Netbooted

[Smith, William]

On 2/3/09 2:44 PM, "Frederick, Scott A" <scott-frederick at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> During the Imaging process with Casper, we could not ³Erase Macintosh HD²,
> even though we checked the box to do so. The process went extremely fast and
> no image was copied to the Target drive. Running Disk Utility would not
> unmount the drive and allow us to repair it. Eventually we had to manually
> moving the contents of the hard drive (by double clicking on the hard drive,
> selecting all the folders) to the trash and emptying the trash.
> 
> Anyone ever run into a scenario like this? Sounded like a damaged disk
> directory, but the Target computer would reboot and function normally if we
> did not image it.

We've had issues with older Mac OSes and newer versions of Casper. For
example, we had an older Restore partition that was still at 10.4.4 but we
were trying to run Casper Imaging 6.01. That failed until I discovered this
was an old OS and updated it to 10.4.10.

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bill

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