Macbook Pro i7 (sandy crack or sand trap?)

[tristan_mason]

Is anyone able to create an image (base image even) that works with the new MacBook Pro’s with Thunderbolt and an i7 processor or am I being useless?

Cheers

Tristan

[tristan_mason]

33 views and not so much as a yes, no or maybe. boo…

[dead2sin]

Yes. I created one for use as a NetBoot set and it works perfectly fine for imaging purposes (DeployStudio Netboot set).

Nate

[Tim Sutton]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: dead2sin[/u][p]Yes. I created one for use as a NetBoot set and it works perfectly fine for imaging purposes (DeployStudio Netboot set).

Nate[/p][/QUOTE]

Ditto. Created a Netboot set today and it works fine with NB110314.

For instaUp2Date, I had an existing catalog I wanted to build for a 17″ Thunderbolt MBP. I imported the grey install disc (build 10J3210), made a copy of my 10.6_vanilla catalog and put only that build number (also removing unnecessary Apple updates), made a copy of my main build catalog to include the modified 10.6_vanilla instead, and had a perfectly working image with all my other applications.

[foilpan]

same here. i imaged via casper netboot, and both the new mbp and an older white macbook booted and ran just fine with it.

[Dreident]

Hi Trisatan. What exactly happens? I had a co-worker (at another office) try to boot an 8,1 with my instadmg/netrestore image and it stopped at the boot screen. Im getting my hands on some 8,1 mbps (thunderbolt?) soon so i can look at the verbose logs since ive been mainly working on deploying 6,2 mbps. I told him to do the manual method for now – copy .dmg to a usb drive and restore it from disk utility.

[Allister Banks]

Hey Dreident, this is a ‘tock’ in the timing of hardware releases, meaning we can’t encompass all shipping hardware with one image- thunderhole laptops need drivers that wouldn’t be present in the 10.6.6 combo update. When the pendulum swings back with 10.6.7(if they don’t make us wait until iMacs get revved) we can hope to cover the mbp’s as well, but a large search engine company is currently maintaining 7 images to cover all the hardware-related images in their fleet. Just saying, Allister

[tristan_mason]

Hi All

Thanks for the replies. I did manage to cobble together a netboot set using a nightly build of DeplyStudio which did boot the ThunderThighs MacBooks but there was functionality lacking in Deploy then.

Suffice to say everything has been updated now including instaDMG so there is balance in the Force once more.The Rebel Alliance can continue its campaign to…

Carried away there but as everyone will now know it’s all working without having to sacrifice any chickens or create custom workflows and netboots. I did have to build a master for thunderthighs and 10.6.7 and capture it the old way. How last century…

Onwards and upwards eh?

Cheers

Tristan

[tristan_mason]

[QUOTE][u] I imported the grey install disc (build 10J3210), .[/p][/QUOTE]

Really? I thought that was a no no??? I thought we were restricted to “vanilla” OS discs or is that just “best practice”?

Tris

[Allister Banks]

Hey Tristan,

We need that grey disc until 10.6.8, or whenever a unifying combo update is released. The most recent svn rev has a special catalog for that one family of laptops. Apple broke our best practices this time.

Allister

[Tim Sutton]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: tristan_mason[/u][p][QUOTE][u] I imported the grey install disc (build 10J3210), .[/p][/QUOTE]

Really? I thought that was a no no??? I thought we were restricted to “vanilla” OS discs or is that just “best practice”?

Tris[/p][/QUOTE]

it’s best practice to use retail discs when possible. But this is really only an issue when you’re deploying that image to several different models of hardware. Since this build is only intended for a specific machine type there’s no harm.

As Allister said, some very large deployments actually find it best to maintain many system-specific images in an automated fashion as opposed to counting on apple having universal hardware support in the retail build stream.

[tristan_mason]

back at the office after 3 weeks of forced layoff. anyways am importing the grey disc now for the thunderthighs MBP. i’ll let you know how it pans out. thanks for the assistance as always.

tris

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