[Casper] Creating Boot Camp Installer via Casper

[Thomas Larkin]

I will try to answer your questions below in bold text


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>>> "Weber, Jason" <Jason.Weber at district196.org> 02/18/09 12:12 PM >>>

I am currently trying to setup a BootCamp install configuration within
Casper, so I can easily deploy Windows in a dual boot config on our
Macs.. 
  
I have been reading through the Resource Kit, and it’s not looking all
too bad, however I do have a few questions so hopefully a few of you
Casper veteran’s can give me a hand.. 
  
So far I have setup BootCamp and setup a test Windows config on a
machine. I then ran sysprep, and have shutdown the Windows side.. So far
so good.. 
  
At this point the directions say to boot back to the Mac side and
install ntfsprogs (which I have downloaded..) 
  
My first question is how or what do I need to do, to configure this
file, and what exactly is this doing? 

The NTFS.progs file is a binary that lest you read/write NTFS partitions
from the Mac side.  What the script does, is it runs as a post image
script, so it will copy the image down after OS X is imaged.  You also
need the gtprefresh file too, and you can drop it into yours standard
$PATH, I put it in /usr/sbin for my image.  You also use their script to
create the image from with in OS X, so you need those tools. 
  
My second question (which I’m guessing doesn’t come into play for a few
more steps but I’ll ask anyway!), is at which point do I install the
sysprep.inf file to auto configure the Windows settings. Also how would
I install/inject that file via Casper?? 

You run sysprep after your windows image is complete, and it will seal
the windows image.  You want to have that ini file on the windows
partition it will read it when it runs set up after imaging it.  I will
toss out a big hint right here.  If you aren't running Microsoft
networking clients and are running something like Novell instead.  You
can totally get rid of the MS networking client and not have to run sys
prep since Novell doesn't care about duplicate computer names.  Saved me
a lot of hassle when we did our dual boot imaging.  

Any help (or other pointers I need to know) is greatly appreciated! 
  
Create your windows image, then seal it with sys prep, then boot off the
Windows CD and boot into recovery console, run a chkdsk /r which will
verify and fix any file system problems it may detect.  This could also
reduce your image size.  When I was doing my trial images last summer I
ran a chkdsk /r on it trying to troubleshoot some issue I was having and
it shaved off about 2 gigs of crap off my windows image.   

Jason Weber
Technology Support Cluster Specialist
Independent School District 196
jason.weber at district196.org
(952)-423-7974 
  

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