Recovery Parition…

[bostonmacosx]

Does InstaDMG support the creation of the recovery partition?

Deploy Studio- “DeployStudio – DeployStudio doesn’t build the Recovery HD partition from scratch. Instead, if you build a 10.7 Mac using the 10.7 installer, then pull an image of it using a DeployStudio rc128 boot set running 10.7.x. the DeployStudio boot set will pull both the 10.7 partition and the Recovery HD partition (assuming if it exists) as two separate images.”

So we don’t have a recovery parition using InstaDMG…is it possible?

Rob

[Allister Banks]

Have I tried: yes, once, and it failed to work with the following scenario
How would one accomplish doing so:
using the choiceChanges file as described here(under the Creating Recovery HD section):
[url]http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/creating-a-never-booted-10-7-image-with-included-recovery-hd-partition/[/url]
Why we don’t necessarily need it to be a often-repeated procedure like instaDMG enables:
the netboot-ish image contained in the recovery partition is safe to pull off of an existing image(meaning it has the same build number on different models, at least). I haven’t been able to confirm if new hardware have different recovery partition builds, but new hardware is a ball of wax unto itself.

Allister

[bostonmacosx]

Which is fine but may I suggest that InstaDMG allow a RP option where it can make a recovery partition.

[Allister Banks]

Please feel free to file an issue at the googlecode site if you’d like.

Allister

[foilpan]

i don’t think this functionality should be incorporated in instadmg.

the recovery partition is relatively static, so what’s the benefit of using instadmg to produce one rather than relying on your deployment tool of choice (deploystudio, casper, etc.) to do so?

[bostonmacosx]

It is my understanding that DeployStudio will make the partition and then place the recovery image that YOU create into it. Deploy studio will not create a repair partition image. Thus why I’m thinking that at least once when you have to do it InstaDMG should support it.

[foilpan]

from reading the DS forum posts and [url]https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/creating-a-never-booted-10-7-image-with-included-recovery-hd-partition[/url], it looks like DS lays own a standard recovery partition, not one you have to create yourself.

try it and update your findings here. my opinion is that if my deployment tools handle this, i don’t want to spend any time making it work in other ways.

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