I’m I doing this correctly?

[kb2ehj_1]

I’m new to playing with making images for the Mac so I just want to make sure I’m doing this correctly.

OS version – 10.6

First I downloaded & printed the PDF document for installation steps off of the googlecode site.

I’ve followed the first three commands to the ‘T’ since I used the cut and paste method of entering the commands, but I’m not sure if the file sizes it’s producing is correct?

I thought the retail version of OS X was around 7.6x GB? When I run the second command that creates the base image it’s coming out at 5.55GB (and takes about 45 minutes just like the instructions says it will)

The third command, that takes the image from the above step and updates it is producing a file that is only 4.39GB (not sure how long it took, I had to step out and take care of some stuff).

Do these file sizes sound correct so far? If they do then I guess I’m onto the next hurdle and figuring out how to also include other applications in the build LOL

Mark

[larkost]

Yes, those sizes sound correct. We use compression to keep the file size as low as possible (but still large). A better check would be to make sure that the image looks good by restoring it to a volume and see if it works as expected.

[kb2ehj_1]

Thank you.

I’ll try that in the morning then, didn’t want to wipe a machine to find out it might not work (not that reloading a base iMac is hard)

Mark

[kb2ehj_1]

Thank you.

I’ll try that in the morning then, didn’t want to wipe a machine to find out it might not work (not that reloading a base iMac is hard)

Mark

[larkost]

A bit of advice if you are going to be working on imaging: get used to blowing away volumes and treating volumes as disposable. Once you get used to that your workflow will be much faster.

[kb2ehj_1]

Worked like a champ.

Didn’t even need to wipe the drive on the test box, just created a 50/50 split and used the second partition as the test drive.

By the end of the day I had worked my way up to having an image with Firefox in it, no registration screens and a default admin account. Those last two of course came from scripts that were made by others.

Mark

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