[Casper] Image too big?

[Chad Brewer]

I like the idea of layering Apps on top of the image, but for things like
Office 08, iLife and iWork its quicker and easier to just have them in the
image.  We have thousands of computers to image over the summer and we use
multicast so we can do a high number of computers at once with limited
server resources.

I do have lots of other packages that we install via policy and casper
remote after the computers are imaged.

We do all of our imaging from netboot using Casper Imaging.

Chad

Steve Wood <swood at integer.com> on June 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM -0700 wrote:
>You called your image "monolithic"  in your email, which leads me to
>understand that you have the OS plus all "common" applications installed
>in the image and that is what you are laying down on machines.  Like
>Jared said, pull out all of those apps and install them Self Service.
>
>My OS image is just that, the OS, with nothing else.  I use InstaDMG to
>build the OS image, then use Casper configurations to push the "common"
>applications, with the exception of the Adobe suite.  I push the Adobe
>suite by a login policy.  I put machines I am imaging into a Smart Group
>by naming them a certain way so they automatically get added to a "Post
>Image" policy that installs Adobe CS3 and all updates.
>
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>
>Steve Wood
>Director of IT
>[ mailto:swood at integer.com ]swood at integer.com 
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>The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 
>T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 
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>On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ernst, Craig S. <[
>mailto:ERNSTCS at uwec.edu ]ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> wrote:
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>That’s what I was wondering...why is it so big? Are you talking just your
>base OS package or everything that gets installed with Casper Imaging?
>Are you caching packages locally then I assume?
>
>My OS is around 3.57GB. I’ve stripped out printer drivers to be packages
>installed later as needed, as well as the languages.
>
>Are you imaging from a Restore partition or while NetBooted?
>
>Craig E
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>On 6/23/09 12:32 PM, "Nichols, Jared" <[ http://jared.nichols@ll.mit.edu
>]jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
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>Slim down your image and let people install from Self Service
>
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>On 6/23/09 13:28 , "Chad Brewer" <[ http://chad.brewer@bend.k12.or.us
>]chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us> wrote:
>
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>Our base (somewhat monolithic) image has gotten too big to put on a 40GB
>hard drive.  The compressed image file is just over 13GB and is around
>25GB once installed.  We are imaging with Casper Imaging using both
>standard imaging and multicast streams.  Both are having this same
>problem.  Is there any easy fix to this?  Obviously the 25GB image will
>work on a 40GB drive, but I no longer have an easy way to get the image
>onto the drive.
>
>Chad
>
>
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>Jared F. Nichols
>Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations
>Information Services Department
>MIT Lincoln Laboratory
>244 Wood Street
>Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
>781.981.5436 
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