[Casper] Tips on shrinking netboot image

[Clinton Blackmore]

Now that is quite the list.  Thank you!

Clinton


On 25-Jun-09, at 9:00 AM, sean.hansell at jwt.com wrote:

>
> This is what I remove. I don't recommend removing all of this stuff  
> unless you're sure you don't need it, but for what I do I remove all  
> the following and it shaves about 2.5 GB off the install.
>
> /Applications (Erase all Except Casper Imaging, System Preferences,  
> Utilities)
> /Applications/Utilities (Erase all except Activity Monitor, Console,  
> Disk Utility, System Profiler, Terminal)
> /Library/Application Support
> /Library/Desktop Pictures
> /Library/Dictionaries
> /Library/Documentation
> /Library/Fonts
> /Library/Image Capture
> /Library/Internet Plugins
> /Library/iTunes
> /Library/Mail
> /Library/Receipts
> /Library/Scripts
> /Library/Spotlight
> /Library/Updates
> /Library/User Pictures
> /Library/WebServer
> /Library/Widgets
> /System/Library/Automator
> /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
> /System/Library/Image Capture
> /System/Library/Input Methods
> /System/Library/Podcast Producer
> /System/Library/Printers
> /System/Library/Screensavers
> /System/Library/Screen Reader
> /System/Library/Services
> /System/Library/Sounds
> /System/Library/Speech
> /System/Library/Spotlight
> /System/Library/User Template
>
> <mime-attachment.jpeg>
>
>
>
> Clinton Blackmore <clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca>
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> Greetings.
>
> I was wondering if any of you have tips on shrinking the netboot image
> that Casper Imaging runs off of.  I made a minimal leopard install
> (ie. OS with no printer drivers, languages, or X11) and created a
> netinstall set with Casper NetInstal Creator 2.02 (from the Resource
> Kit).  The resulting spareimage file in the .nbi directory is 6.76 GB.
>
> On an iBook G4 that I've netbooted in verbose mode, it is saying, "uid
> 0 on /private/tmp: file system full", and it seems plausible that a
> smaller netinstall set might alleviate this.
>
> Cheers,
> Clinton Blackmore
>
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