[Casper] Creating Boot Camp Installer via Casper

Wed Feb 18 11:55:23 PST 2009

I have used winclone in the past and you can actually deploy it via ARD
Admin if you want.  I have never tried it, but there is a document
floating around the interwebs with a how to guideline to do so. 
However, I can use casper remote and ARD admin to reinstall windows, and
just Windows itself.  The install script actually will pull the windows
down from the casper share. 

You can log in as local admin, run disk utility and wipe out the windwos
partition and resize the volume so it is all one HD, then run the
script.  It will, resize and pull down the image immediately and you
don't have to mess with winclone.  When I was troubleshooting some
issues we had with our dual boot imaging set up, I would run the Windows
image script manually from the local admin account and watch what it did
line by line in terminal to show me what was going on.   

So, you could easily use casper remote to mount the casper share, and
then run the script, but you would need to get rid of the current
windows partition since the script is reliant on what disk slice to use.
 You could also do that via a script. 

Winclone, however, is a nice and free tool.  So I suggest you try it
out.

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Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
blackberry:  913-449-7589
office:  913-627-0351

>>> <NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org> 02/18/09 12:46 PM >>>

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

++++++++++++++++++
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

___________________________
Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
blackberry:  913-449-7589
office:  913-627-0351

>>> "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 conYou 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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