NetInstall image won’t restore, not enough space

[jstaloff]

Tiger Server 10.4.7

I have a NetInstall image for my G5 iMacs, and it works great. I opened up a copy of it, delocalized, deleted Garage Band et. al. to pare it down for older iMacs, and then used asr to rescan it. The NetInstall image I make out of that is 2 GB and installs great on an iMac with a 40 GB drive, but not on one with a 7 GB drive. It seems there ought to be enough room:

home:/Volumes/Macintosh HD admin$ sudo du -sh .
Password:
3.4G .

When I netboot, the installer finishes real quick, and the log says Not enough space on /dev/disk0s9 to restore. My Netinstall is set to erase the HD first.

What gives? Do I need to change the block size somehow on that image? Or is there some limit on the size of the original drive? I made the image originally on an eMac with an 80 GB drive.

Jason

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