[Casper] Upgrading from Tiger to Leopard

[Miles Leacy]

This is very similar to my client setups.
I give Macintosh HD 20GB on 80GB drives, 40GB on all others.

I strongly recommend using a Restore partition unless you have a robust
network and a netboot server.  Even if you do use netboot on site, having a
restore partition can get you out of a jam with a mobile user on the road.

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2009/1/7 Bryan Vines <bkvines at wgclawfirm.com>

> David,
> We began exploring the idea of having the user data on a separate partition
> for the same reason -- future OS upgrades will hopefully be less painful. We
> have been using a three-partition scheme: Restore, Macintosh HD, and Data.
>
> Our partition sizes are:
>     Restore: 15GB
>     Macintosh HD: 30GB or so
>     Data: The rest of the drive.
>
> We've found we need at least an 80GB drive to allow the users about 30GB of
> space. We deployed a few Tiger machines with this partitioning scheme, but
> then we went ahead and switched to deploying Leopard (mostly because of
> laptops which would only run Leopard).
>
> User homes go on Data, so if the main boot partition ends up hosed, we can
> restore it from our standard configuration and get the user up and running
> again with a minimum of fuss.
>
> We're now moving our older installed base to Leopard. We have to go touch
> each machine, either to repartition its hard drive or install a larger one.
> We're hoping we won't have to do that when Snow Leopard rolls around.
>
> --
> Bryan Vines
> bkvines at wgclawfirm.com
>
>
> From: David Lundgren <david.lundgren at brooks.edu>
> Subject: [Casper] Upgrading from Tiger to Leopard
>
> I was wondering how you all have done migrations from Tiger to Leopard.
>
> We have an Active Directory setup where the users home directories are
> local
> to the machine (our faculty often have 10GB+ of data, and some have
> laptops).
>
> We were contemplating doing separate user and OS partitions at the same
> time
> to make any future OS upgrades less painful, without having to worry about
> user data.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Lundgren
> IT Systems Administrator
>
>
>
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