From bob.feldhake.pyb3 at statefarm.com Tue May 18 10:37:26 2010 From: bob.feldhake.pyb3 at statefarm.com (Bob Feldhake) Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:37:26 -0500 Subject: [Resourcekit] NetInstall Creator and i5/i7 hardware? Message-ID: <201005181737.o4IHbUY7021489@ns27.statefarm.com> Hey guys, Anyone had any luck with the NetInstall creator with the new MacBook Pros? Every time I try and start a new NetInstall image with the NetInstall Creator 3.1b, it hangs at ?Creating .nbi folder? and ?converting image to read/write? I?ve tried making a NetBoot by enabling root, setting it to autologin, and making Casper Imaging a login item. That seems to be booting all of my machines fine, but won?t format the drives properly to allow me to do a block copy of any configurations... Help? Thanks, Bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From swood at integer.com Tue May 18 10:40:26 2010 From: swood at integer.com (Steve Wood) Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:40:26 -0500 Subject: [Resourcekit] NetInstall Creator and i5/i7 hardware? In-Reply-To: <201005181737.o4IHbUY7021489@ns27.statefarm.com> References: <201005181737.o4IHbUY7021489@ns27.statefarm.com> Message-ID: This was my post from the i5/i7 discussion on the Casper list: Yes, I was able to get an NBI built. Just like I stated before, everything had to be done on the notebook (17" MBP in this case). These are the steps I took: 1. Ran through the setup on the notebook so I had 10.6.3 running on the laptop. 2. Installed the 10.6.3 that came with the notebook onto an external USB drive so I could boot off it to image. 3. Booted off the USB drive and ran Composer to capture the OS that was on the notebook hard drive. 4. Ran Casper Net Install Creator from the USB drive booted on the notebook. That all went semi smooth. Of course, in thinking about this now, I probably could have booted the notebook in Target Disk mode and attached to another box running 10.6.3 to capture the OS. But I'm pretty sure that I needed to create the NBI while booted off the notebook. Not 100% sure of that though. Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integer.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 2010/5/18 Bob Feldhake > Hey guys, > > Anyone had any luck with the NetInstall creator with the new MacBook Pros? > Every time I try and start a new NetInstall image with the NetInstall > Creator 3.1b, it hangs at ?Creating .nbi folder? and ?converting image to > read/write? > > I?ve tried making a NetBoot by enabling root, setting it to autologin, and > making Casper Imaging a login item. That seems to be booting all of my > machines fine, but won?t format the drives properly to allow me to do a > block copy of any configurations... > > Help? > > Thanks, > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Resourcekit mailing list > Resourcekit at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/resourcekit > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bob.feldhake.pyb3 at statefarm.com Tue May 18 11:05:53 2010 From: bob.feldhake.pyb3 at statefarm.com (Bob Feldhake) Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 13:05:53 -0500 Subject: [Resourcekit] NetInstall Creator and i5/i7 hardware? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <201005181806.o4II6imP009363@NS97.statefarm.com> I tried all that, and my NetBoot still wasn?t functioning properly. Some of my configurations were loading, but only as packaged-based installers. Others were ?loading? and then rebooting to flashing folder icons... I think I may have figured it out, though. Apparently the newest NetInstall Creator is really flaky and only accepts .dmg files as input rather than being able to select a hard drive in target disk mode. After figuring that out, I got it to spit me out a new NetInstall. So we?ll see how it works. Thanks, Bob From: Steve Wood Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:40:26 -0500 To: Bob Feldhake Cc: Subject: Re: [Resourcekit] NetInstall Creator and i5/i7 hardware? This was my post from the i5/i7 discussion on the Casper list: Yes, I was able to get an NBI built. ?Just like I stated before, everything had to be done on the notebook (17" MBP in this case). ?These are the steps I took: 1. ?Ran through the setup on the notebook so I had 10.6.3 running on the laptop. 2. ?Installed the 10.6.3 that came with the notebook onto an external USB drive so I could boot off it to image. 3. ?Booted off the USB drive and ran Composer to capture the OS that was on the notebook hard drive. 4. ?Ran Casper Net Install Creator from the USB drive booted on the notebook. That all went semi smooth. ?Of course, in thinking about this now, I probably could have booted the notebook in Target Disk mode and attached to another box running 10.6.3 to capture the OS. ?But I'm pretty sure that I needed to create the NBI while booted off the notebook. ?Not 100% sure of that though. Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integer.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 2010/5/18 Bob Feldhake > Hey guys, > > Anyone had any luck with the NetInstall creator with the new MacBook Pros? > Every time I try and start a new NetInstall image with the NetInstall Creator > 3.1b, it hangs at ?Creating .nbi folder? and ?converting image to read/write? > > I?ve tried making a NetBoot by enabling root, setting it to autologin, and > making Casper Imaging a login item. That seems to be booting all of my > machines fine, but won?t format the drives properly to allow me to do a block > copy of any configurations... > > Help? > > Thanks, > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Resourcekit mailing list > Resourcekit at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/resourcekit > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bob.feldhake.pyb3 at statefarm.com Tue May 18 11:07:47 2010 From: bob.feldhake.pyb3 at statefarm.com (Bob Feldhake) Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 13:07:47 -0500 Subject: [Resourcekit] NetInstall Creator and i5/i7 hardware? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <201005181807.o4II7nCk023043@NS77.statefarm.com> Apologies...I guess I was mistaken when I just said ?I tried all that? I hadn?t tried using the Composer image I?d taken of the macbook as the source for the NetInstall Creator. I guess if I had just read more closely this may have fixed my problem. :-) From: Steve Wood Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:40:26 -0500 To: Bob Feldhake Cc: Subject: Re: [Resourcekit] NetInstall Creator and i5/i7 hardware? This was my post from the i5/i7 discussion on the Casper list: Yes, I was able to get an NBI built. ?Just like I stated before, everything had to be done on the notebook (17" MBP in this case). ?These are the steps I took: 1. ?Ran through the setup on the notebook so I had 10.6.3 running on the laptop. 2. ?Installed the 10.6.3 that came with the notebook onto an external USB drive so I could boot off it to image. 3. ?Booted off the USB drive and ran Composer to capture the OS that was on the notebook hard drive. 4. ?Ran Casper Net Install Creator from the USB drive booted on the notebook. That all went semi smooth. ?Of course, in thinking about this now, I probably could have booted the notebook in Target Disk mode and attached to another box running 10.6.3 to capture the OS. ?But I'm pretty sure that I needed to create the NBI while booted off the notebook. ?Not 100% sure of that though. Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integer.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 2010/5/18 Bob Feldhake > Hey guys, > > Anyone had any luck with the NetInstall creator with the new MacBook Pros? > Every time I try and start a new NetInstall image with the NetInstall Creator > 3.1b, it hangs at ?Creating .nbi folder? and ?converting image to read/write? > > I?ve tried making a NetBoot by enabling root, setting it to autologin, and > making Casper Imaging a login item. That seems to be booting all of my > machines fine, but won?t format the drives properly to allow me to do a block > copy of any configurations... > > Help? > > Thanks, > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Resourcekit mailing list > Resourcekit at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/resourcekit > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: