[Casper] Dual-boot deployments
jorge a. najera-ordonez
jorge at nyu.edu
Wed Mar 25 14:00:27 PDT 2009
i could not get it working either while netbooting. it kept failing
when it went to lay down the windows image (it partitioned fine) even
though the ntfsprogs apps were all in the right locations and they
were in my path. my solution was to run it once the machine was booted
either by policy or casper remote but i manually mount the casper
share in the script with the following lines:
mkdir /Volumes/CasperShare
mount_afp afp://login:password@your.address.here/CasperShare /Volumes/
Caspershare
this has worked fine for us. i also modified it a bit to modify the
log output so it can be monitored
jorge a. najera-ordonez
On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Criss Myers wrote:
> That's same as ur site and it don't work for me with my netinstall
> but I'd be interested in others experiences, I sent jeff mine so he
> can try both
>
> Cheers
>
> Criss
>
> On 25 Mar 2009, at 19:59, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:
>
>> OK, I just pulled the script off my actual casper share, this is
>> the actual script we use to mass image our Macs. I image probably
>> over 100 per a month that go in and out for repair and of course
>> 6,000 every summer. All I have to do is netboot and autorun data
>> takes care of the rest
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
>> export PATH
>>
>> ## DISK PARTITIONING PARAMETERS
>>
>> volume='/Volumes/Macintosh HD'
>> mac='75%'
>> windows='24%'
>>
>> ## BOOT CAMP SOURCE IMAGE PARAMETERS
>> CasperShare="/Volumes/CasperShare"
>> ntfs_image="$CasperShare/Scripts/BootCamp.ntfs"
>>
>>
>> # Optionally, you can set the following values explicitly
>> root_target_disk="disk0" # e.g. "disk0"
>> raw_target_dev="/dev/rdisk0" # e.g. "/dev/rdisk0"
>> ntfs_slice_num="3" # e.g. "3"
>> ntfs_dev="/dev/disk0s3" # e.g. "/dev/disk0s3"
>>
>>
>>
>> ### SCRIPT ACTION ###
>>
>>
>> # Resize the disk
>>
>> /usr/sbin/diskutil resizeVolume "$volume" $mac MS-DOS windows
>> $windows
>>
>>
>> # Determine, based on the target path passed to the script, what is
>> the device
>> # number of the NTFS partition on the same drive
>>
>> if [ "$root_target_disk" == "" ]; then
>> root_target_disk=`df "$1" | awk '!/Filesystem/ {print $1}' | cut
>> -c 6-10`
>> fi
>> root_target_dev=/dev/$root_target_disk
>> echo "root_target_dev: $root_target_dev"
>>
>> if [ "$raw_target_dev" == "" ]; then
>> raw_target_dev=/dev/r$root_target_disk
>> fi
>> echo "raw_target_dev: $raw_target_dev"
>>
>> if [ "$ntfs_slice_num" == "" ]; then
>> ntfs_slice_num=`diskutil list $root_target_dev | awk 'BEGIN
>> {disk = "nodisk"} {sub("disk\.s", "")} ($NF < 5 && /Microsoft Basic
>> Data/) {disk = $NF} END {print disk}'`
>> if [ "$ntfs_slice_num" == "nodisk" ]; then
>> echo "Failed to determine the NTFS device slice number -- try
>> adding it to the $0 script explicitly \(target disk is
>> $root_target_dev\)"
>> exit 1
>> fi
>> fi
>> echo "ntfs_slice_num: $ntfs_slice_num"
>>
>> if [ "$ntfs_dev" == "" ]; then
>> ntfs_dev=/dev/disk0s$ntfs_slice_num
>> fi
>> echo "ntfs_dev: $ntfs_dev"
>> echo ""
>>
>> echo "Unmounting the target disk..."
>> diskutil unmount $ntfs_dev
>>
>> echo "Restoring disk image to target volume..."
>> ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite "$ntfs_dev" "$ntfs_image"
>>
>> echo "Resizing target volume to partition limit..."
>> ntfsresize -ff "$ntfs_dev"
>>
>> echo "Reading file that contains MBR..."
>> ntfscat -f "$ntfs_dev" /WINDOWS/system32/dmadmin.exe > /tmp/
>> dmadmin.exe
>>
>> echo "Harvesting MBR..."
>> dd if=/tmp/dmadmin.exe of=/tmp/mbr skip=216616 count=446 bs=1
>>
>> echo "Syncing GPT to BIOS partition table and restoring MBR..."
>> gptrefresh -w -a $ntfs_slice_num -f -u -m /tmp/mbr $root_target_dev
>>
>> echo "Updating boot.ini partition number..."
>> ntfscat -f $ntfs_dev /boot.ini > /tmp/boot.ini
>> perl -p -i -e "s/partition\(.*\)/partition\($ntfs_slice_num\)/g" /
>> tmp/boot.ini
>> ntfscp -f $ntfs_dev /tmp/boot.ini /boot.ini
>>
>> echo "Mounting the target disk..."
>> diskutil mount "$ntfs_dev"
>>
>>
>> Maybe this ones differs from the one on my site I haven't done a
>> side by side comparison
>>
>>
>> ___________________________
>> Thomas Larkin
>> TIS Department
>> KCKPS USD500
>> tlarki at kckps.org
>> blackberry: 913-449-7589
>> office: 913-627-0351
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >>> "Dorey, Dustin" <Dustin.Dorey at district196.org> 03/25/09 1:07 PM
>> >>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 651|423|7971
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>> Department of Educational Technology
>> Systems Administrator
>> Loyola High School of Los Angeles
>> 1901 Venice Blvd.
>> Los Angeles, Ca 90006
>> (213) 381-5121 x265
>>
>> Apple Certified Support Professional
>> Apple Certified Technical Coordinator
>>
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