[Casper] Dual-boot deployments

[Criss Myers]

I sent jeff my scripts and article so he should be able to get going

Dustin can u give mr ur coworkers email , I'd be interested on talking  
to him about issues I came across

Cheers
Criss
On 25 Mar 2009, at 18:07, "Dorey, Dustin"  
<Dustin.Dorey at district196.org> wrote:

> 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 th 
> e drive your imaging so either way you’re netbooting or using a rest 
> ore partition.   You need to partition the drive, you need to format 
>  the partitions correctly (NTFS for the windows side I believe you u 
> se NTFSprog ) and lay down the images (configsJAMF has put together  
> in the resource kit much of what you’ll need to do dual boot deploym 
> ents, and Thomas Larkin also has some resources on his website, and  
> knowing Thomas I’m sure he will respond to this. J
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>                 One thing we’ve encountered is that it’s not too  
> difficult to lay down a monolithic windows image in a dual boot depl 
> oyment.   But when you add in needing to do things like binding to A 
> D etc… where UID is concerned it makes things a little bit more diff 
> icult.  Then you really have to start messing with Sys Prep and stuf 
> f.   Again my co-worker has been doing the work on developing that h 
> ere so I don’t have the intimate knowledge he has, but I do know tha 
> t there are several people on this list serv that have done it and d 
> o regularly deploy dual boot with Casper, so I’d check the archives.
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>    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 e 
> nvironment.  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 co 
> uple 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 mat 
> ter what system you use to do the imaging you’re going to run into t 
> he 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.
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> Good luck.
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> Dustin  Dorey
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> Technology Support Cluster Specialist
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> Independant School District 196
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> Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools
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> dustin.dorey at district196.org
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> 651|423|7971
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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
> Cc: Casper List
> Subject: Re: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments
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> 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.
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> I'm not sure how you'd use it in conjunction with Casper Imaging.
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> Clinton Blackmore
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> On 23-Mar-09, at 12:07 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote:
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> 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
> Department of Educational Technology
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> Loyola High School of Los Angeles
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