[Casper] Upgrading from Tiger to Leopard

[Miles Leacy]

Wow.  That's really a great idea.  I may have to change my procedure.
Can you share more details?  Is this a launchd item, a policy, etc?

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2009/1/9 Daniel Farnworth <daniel.farnworth at thecreativepartnership.co.uk>

> Just chiming in with my 2 pence worth, we approach this in a slightly
> different way for a number of reasons.
>
> I'm not sure about other applications, but we discovered that Avid
> applications do not like symlinks when it comes to /Users which they
> still rather irritatingly use to store various things (mostly in /
> Users/Shared)
>
> What we do instead is have a separate Homes or Data partition and
> then use fstab to mount this directly to /Users, this gives us the
> best of both worlds, user data on a separate volume and no symlinks
> involved. It also this works a treat for the Avid apps as they just
> see that the /Users directory is in the correct place. I have a pre-
> install script that we use to do this for us if anyone is interested.
>
> Cheers
> Dan
>
> On 7 Jan 2009, at 22:02, Miles Leacy wrote:
>
> > 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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