Feedback on Lion deployments

[Dreident]

So for the past few months since Lion came out I haven been able to get an image working. Hasnt been a big deal but it is getting a little annoying (details in my previous post last month, something about a disc space issue). So im asking what everyone else uses for generating and deploying images.

My setup is (3x) Snow Leopard Servers. Ive had no real problems with snow leopard deployments except for when releases are forked. Should I upgrade my servers to Lion just to create/deploy? I tried creating a instadmg vanilla/payloadless image serveral times in a lion client and deploying on the SL server. I wonder if its something as silly as not deploying from lion svr.

[Allister Banks]

Hey Dreident,

I haven’t had any issues deploying vanilla images, but using my usual firstboot configuration packages did require some alteration(Airport is named Wi-Fi, localMCX requires User [u]and[/u] Group folders, payload-free packages failed so I rebuilt them as Luggage projects). I created my DeployStudio netboot set on Lion months back, so things have worked fine for quite a while. I hear there are fundamental differences with how Lion netboot images boot, but cannot tell if that is directly related to your issue. Let us know how else we can point you in the right direction,

Allister

[Dreident]

I see. Ill give deploystudio another shot. Ive been using instadmg to package, SIU to create a netrestore image then netboot with OSX SL Svr’s netboot.

[rtrouton]

I’ve been using DeployStudio successfully with InstaDMG-created Lion images. The general process I’m using is described here:

[url]http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/creating-a-never-booted-10-7-image-with-included-recovery-hd-partition/[/url]

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