Newbie Firstboot question

[libwolf]

Hello All,

My current issue is getting my Firstboot package to install.

I built the package following the instructions on OSXDeployment, but I can’t work out how to get it to install. My changes are fairly simple – time zone, Remote Management Settings.

I have tried adding it to my Catalog files & putting the package in /InstaDMG/InstallerFiles/InstaUp2DatePackages/

My output suggests that it ran fine — pastie.org/2874445 — but none of the changes appear in the deployed image.

Thanks,

[Allister Banks]

Hey there,

That pastie does look about right, could you please give a link to the relevant part of the debug log? Just to verify, you have a package that drops a launchdaemon and the script which that launchdaemon runs, and neither of those are making it into the image? I noticed this on Lion when I moved files into place with cp commands in a payloadfree packages postflight script, so I rebuilt them with theLuggage.

Allister

[libwolf]

I’m not sure what you mean by debug log?

Do you mean any InstaDMG output from Console?

Thanks,

[Allister Banks]

In the same /instadmg/logs folder folder is the debug log(what you see in the terminal output is the package log).

Allister

[libwolf]

Appologies for the delay

pastie.org/2876055 is my package log.

pastie.org/2876064 is my debugger log for the package in question

Thanks,

[Allister Banks]

So it’s not a payload-free package, since you built it using the packagemaker template? The payload is a launchdaemon and the script which that launchdaemon runs, and neither of those are making it into the image?

Allister

[libwolf]

Yes.

I’m not sure how I’m supposed to add it to the image.

The firstboot.plist is in the root of the drive, but there’s no directory at /library/scripts/EduName as in the plist.

[Allister Banks]

If firstboot.plist is the launchdaemon, it belongs in /Lib/Launchdaemons with the proper own/perms, and the script its supposed to be launching needs to be executable and at the path set in the launchdaemon. Could you please join us in the ##osx-server IRC room to discuss this further?

Allister

[libwolf]

Due to workplace restrictions, unfortunately not.

I’ll try from home.

[Allister Banks]

really, even through the web? [url]http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#%23osx-server[/url]

Allister

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