First Boot (different question…)

[tristan_mason]

Just wondering what the difference is between putting things in the firstboot and the postflight is and is there a preference for say commands (rm prehaps) and write defaults etc eg should one go in the firstboot and the other in postflight? Just not sure what to put where and why.

Regards

Tristan

[Allister Banks]

Postflight will run on the unbooted system, whereas first boot is how you alter stuff you wouldn’t have access to otherwise. I enjoy putting as much into payload-free packages with postflight scripts to do my bidding, and therefore have as close to a zero-touch deployment as possible(especially when combined with deploystudio, puppet, and or munki). But sometimes you should follow best practices and not hack stuff into the unbooted box so data is modified to your liking with the near-native binaries/apps that are supposed to be modifying them. And there’s plenty of times you have no choice because what you’re trying to do doesn’t behave in a unbooted environment.

Pardon me if I’m just rambling… Allister

[tristan_mason]

that all makes sense. i’m just trying to get the most out of it too.

cheers

tris

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