[Casper] Creating Boot Camp Installer via Casper

[NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org]

In response to Tom's last comment about booting finished Windows image to 
CD then running CHKDSK /R, that sounds like a good idea.  I've always 
hated how large the WINXPSP3 images were, especially with the pagefile.sys 
in there.   Will this get rid of that, too?

On another note, I also make a WinClone image of our WXP images so a tech 
can restore those one at a time without Casper or if it is a custom 
Windows image for a lab or something.  Throw WinClone on the NetBoot image 
and we're good there.   Often our teachers will wreck one OS side of their 
laptop but not both.


Nathaniel Lindley

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Educational Technology
Saint Paul Public Schools
Saint Paul, Minnesota
nathaniel.lindley at spps.org
phone:  651-248-6861



"Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> 
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Re: [Casper] Creating Boot Camp Installer via Casper






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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