EFI and Bluetooth Firmware effects on InstaDMG

[jasonkstupski]

Hello all,

I’m preparing to try InstaDMG to create our images for the first time (having come from a monolithic image creation background), and I have a question regarding firmware.

When I place all the pkg files into the hierarchy to create the image the first time, is the firmware update something I have to do separately for each machine I’m going to image? I’m not sure what will happen (monolithic image or not) with the firmware updates. For example, even if I create my perfect machine with the firmware update, will I have to re-apply that firmware update when I push the image onto a new machine (which doesn’t have the update)?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Jason

[walt]

The firmware updates have to be installed on the systems when they are running (imaged). The best practice for this would be either to not include firmware updates in the image, and just apply them afterwards manually, or if you have the exact same model of Mac and they all need the update you could potentially install the firmware update packages to include them on the image, but you would still need to run them manually on each workstation.

[jasonkstupski]

Thanks walt!

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