[Casper] Dual-boot deployments

Wed Mar 25 11:07:59 PDT 2009

Casper is able to deploy dual boot environments as well, my coworker here has been working on it and is currently out otherwise I’m sure he’d respond.   And it doesn’t matter what imaging solution you use whether it’s Casper imaging or Deploy studio, certain things are going to be the same.   You need to boot to something other than the drive your imaging so either way you’re netbooting or using a restore partition.   You need to partition the drive, you need to format the partitions correctly (NTFS for the windows side I believe you use NTFSprog ) and lay down the images (configsJAMF has put together in the resource kit much of what you’ll need to do dual boot deployments, and Thomas Larkin also has some resources on his website, and knowing Thomas I’m sure he will respond to this. J

                One thing we’ve encountered is that it’s not too difficult to lay down a monolithic windows image in a dual boot deployment.   But when you add in needing to do things like binding to AD etc… where UID is concerned it makes things a little bit more difficult.  Then you really have to start messing with Sys Prep and stuff.   Again my co-worker has been doing the work on developing that here so I don’t have the intimate knowledge he has, but I do know that there are several people on this list serv that have done it and do regularly deploy dual boot with Casper, so I’d check the archives.

   There has been lots of talk about deploy studio lately, and from everything I’ve seen it makes no sense to me to use it in a Casper environment.  It has far less to offer and Casper can do anything it can do.    With all the talk about deploy studio lately I asked a couple Apple Systems Engineers about it, and both of the Apple SE’s I asked about it in comparison to Casper Suite said not to bother with it if you have Casper available.   It’s a step down.    And you won’t have the great support that JAMF provides.    It does make for a nice presentation and all since it is pretty, but in practice no matter what system you use to do the imaging you’re going to run into the same pitfalls that need to be overcome.

                Definitely check through the archives on this, check out the resource kit and I know Thomas has some good info, maybe my co-worker Jason will weigh in if he has time as he can speak with more authority on the matter, but I’m not sure when that might be.  From our conversations about how his testing and development of the process for our needs here I know he said that having to Bind to AD increased the amount of setup.  But I can’t say why since I’ve been keeping my nose out of it while he worked on it.

Good luck.

Dustin  Dorey

Technology Support Cluster Specialist

Independant School District 196

Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools

dustin.dorey at district196.org

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From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Clinton Blackmore
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:08 PM
To: Jeff Strauss
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Subject: Re: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments

My coworker recently returned from a week of training, and in a lab, they used DeployStudio ( http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html ) to create triple-boot machines!  I gather that DeployStudio is the spiritual successor to NetRestore, but haven't used it myself.

I'm not sure how you'd use it in conjunction with Casper Imaging.

Clinton Blackmore

On 23-Mar-09, at 12:07 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote:

Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I’d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of our software to be created during Casper Imaging. 

Thanks for your continued help, everyone!

Jeffrey A. Strauss
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