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Check to make sure you don’t have any other disks mounted while you’re running the script. Easiest way to do that is simply just restart your computer and then try the script again.

I know it sounds stupid but that’s what happened to me…

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Allister[/u][p]Hey B,

Please see the sticky on this forum to try firefox f it barks at you about spam. Thanks,

Allister[/p][/QUOTE]

Yessir, I did notice that and I’ve been using Firefox this entire time.

Also for reasons I can’t figure out – Restarting my Mac Pro fixed the issue withe InstaUp2date not seeing the Installerdisk.

It is a mystery … why i didn’t trying that sooner…

[bosemachine]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: bosemachine[/u][p]I sent a PM because the spam detector hates me. 😯

…I tried to send a PM but apparently I wrote too much and it’s spam worthy. Nuts[/p][/QUOTE]

Ok I’m not sure how to post what I wanna post to get around the spam bot so I took a screen shot of the preview and put it on imgur

[url]http://imgur.com/nrTQn.png[/url]

edit: looks like someone already posted the issue on googlecode: [url]http://code.google.com/p/instadmg/issues/detail?id=72[/url]

[bosemachine]

I sent a PM because the spam detector hates me. 😯

…I tried to send a PM but apparently I wrote too much and it’s spam worthy. Nuts

[bosemachine]

I hope this thread isn’t too old to resurrect but I’m having similar errors as the OP but simply using svn to update didn’t resolve the issue.

I’m using a retail 10.6.3 disk (10D575) and an InstallerChoices.xml file in the same folder. Regardless of whether I go with the legacy tagged Install DVD or not, I get the same errors as the OP.

I’m using instaup2date.py rev 392 and based on the advice dead2sin has given, I can confirm that I’m not getting past the 10.6_vanilla.

B

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: dead2sin[/u][p]I think munki is a much cleaner way of doing stuff over Radmind. Radmind isn’t bad, but I think munki is slightly better.

Nate[/p][/QUOTE]

That’s actually very encouraging. Do you use munki along with Workgroup Manager? Currently, I’m using WGM for just the bare minimums such as Software Update server, various gui featured customizations, machine names, and printer drivers.

I honestly wouldn’t mind a Netboot scenario except for the large user file sizes and the lack of persistent shadow caches.

[bosemachine]

Ok – I have some progress on the 3 items.

1) The activation process is purely manual. It calls home, receives some kind of confirmation that the license is valid and in the right quantity, and then changes something on the local machine that activates it. The installation package installs just the application and does nothing with the activation. I tried to just use Composer to capture the activation process, but it doesn’t seem to work between different machines (most likely machine specific changes are made). So activation is manual and Telestream doesn’t seem to want to budge from that…

2) I just made a couple xpi’s using Mozilla CCK and it’s awesome! My only gripe is that I can’t seem to remove the default bookmarks such as “Most recent”, “Getting Started”, and “Latest Headlines”. But that aside, it does everything I need to do globally so I can finally upgrade freely without reservation.

4) The image size is definitely going to be the next big thing for us. I’ll play with some linking and see if we can get away from such a large ‘full’ image.

I’ll take a look at Munki and see if it’s something we can use – ideally, we would use Instadmg to create the initial image and then run something like Radmind to maintain it.

Thanks!
B

[bosemachine]

Afternoon Nate! Thanks for your speedy reply as always 🙂

1) It is a standard installation package. However, the activation i think is machine specific maybe…which is probably why creating an activation package on my loadset machine via Composer doesn’t seem to affect the lab machines. I contacted Telestream regarding the fact that they’re basically expecting me to manually activate 125 machines and their response was more or less ‘sorry, you have to if you wanna use our software’. Needless to say, my response was a bit more agitated but ah..such is the life of a sysadmin…

2) I will definitely look into Firefox CCK! I’ve been doing the previous method which is a pain whenever a new version is released so this is huge – thanks!

3) I agree – the only time I’ve noticed the error is when I’m ‘testing’ the machine and opening up, for example, Excel, Word, and Powerpoint simultaneously. But I guess most users don’t really do that so I’m not too concerned…hopefully 2011 is a little more friendly when it comes to this level of customization. So #3 I’m going to ignore – no reason trying to fix something that’ll only get replaced with a new workflow come the next Office.

As a #4 (or maybe I should just stick this in it’s own thread), is there anyway to references to DVD Templates (DVD Studio Pro) or Sound Files (Logic Studio) on a server location? I hate the fact that my loadset is almost 90GBs because of these uncompressed audio clips that a majority of people don’t even use…pushing it off to a network share and using symbolic links to reference it would be more than ideal. I figured out that without all the unnecessary fluff, my loadset could shrink down to almost 40GBs which could be reloaded in 15 minutes versus the current 45 minutes.

My next target is to use a purely network user home directory…however, given the fact that most of our users store GBs of data at a time, we would need to either A) have really REALLY fast network storage or B) exclude anything over a certain file size from transferring with the user’s profile. I know I’ve seen that done before but without something to limit the size of files being uploaded to a centralized server, we would experience severe network congestion which would make video editing painful.

Thanks again for any advice you can give!
B

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Good to know! Luckily we deal with predominantly HP printers here so it’s relatively harmless…relatively.

Anyway, I did in fact get it to work thanks to dead2sin’s help…the only thing that kept screwing me up was setting the actual “duplex” option. For reasons that are beyond me, ‘lpoptions -l’ listed the duplexer line as “HPOptions_Duplexer/Duplex Unit: True *False” so I assumed I’d be using [code]lpoptions -p “PrinterX” -o “HPOptions_Duplexer/Duplex Unit”=true[/code]

but for whatever reason, I wasn’t getting the change the show up in lpoptions -l.

After some looking around at the actual PPD file, I found that the actual duplex option was “HPOption_Duplexer”.

So problem solved thanks to you guys! 🙂

[bosemachine]

Thank you so much dead2sin! I’ll give it a try in the morning when I get into work.

I’ve been using the instadmg workflow for about a year now and its been incredibly versatile in conjunction with WGM; however I’ve had some pretty difficult roadblocks made worse by my lack of familiarity with plist manipulation and appropriate usage of first run scripts.

Luckily there’s a boatload of expertise here…thanks again! 🙂
B

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So I ended up adding this these lines to do the permission repair prior to the image file getting created in clean_up_image() :

# Repair disk permissions
log “Repairing mounted image permissions” information
/usr/sbin/diskutil repairpermissions “$TARGET_IMAGE_MOUNT” | (while read INPUT; do log “$INPUT ” detail; done)

so far so good! Looks like I no longer have to repair disk permissions after restoring…yay bandaid fixes 😉

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: larkost[/u][p]Nope, no new development yet. I am getting closer to being able to start the switchover, but right now the emphasis in my time is in reworking InstaUp2Date to get it ready to take the new development, and a lot on getting testing code in place so I am not so worried about things breaking, and can have more confidence that everything is working as expected.[/p][/QUOTE]

Well I didn’t mean to sound ungrateful or anything because I am absolutely dependent on InstaDMG for about 60-80% of my monthly paychecks 😉 But I’ll resist posting fluffy praise and just say that it whatever new development would only improve an already stellar imaging system.

Zvorduak,

Thank you for that suggestion! I’ve resorted to the same method of removing the huge packages and just messing with the smaller packages in a troubleshooting image. It works for the most part but I’ve got one problem right now where I need to ‘repair permissions’ after restoration in order to see all the fonts in any word processing application. This means to me that A) I screwed up permissions somewhere in one or more packages related to either ROOT/Library or the font folder and B) it’s something that leaves a receipt behind that Disk Utility can read off of. However, I can’t seem to pinpoint anything specific to fonts in the repair disk permission log. Oy! I do enjoy a good mystery tho 😉

[bosemachine]

Yessir. Right now I’m basically just using ARD to login and start up Photoshop on all my machines. It’s an extra 2 steps but it makes sure whatever CS4 needs to do to install its licensing gets done.

[bosemachine]

Sorry about the lack of update – but my original CS4 problems persist despite following the amazing write-up word for word. I’ve taken a break from it in the meantime for some other issues (Mac Pro default sound output anyone? Why can’t the back line out work like the front headphone jack and detect when I have external speakers plugged in?).

[bosemachine]

Sorry I’ve been pretty scarce but with the upcoming school year , I’ve been running around like crazy trying to accommodate software requests.

Anyway, I’ve tried all the suggested fixes but I still have the required launch order (Photoshop or something/Acrobat/Distiller). I know that even with a clean DVD installed version of CS4, I need to run Photoshop or something prior to running Acrobat, but it never breaks licensing to require authentication every time.

Can someone please tell me they’ve successfully imaged CS4 without this launch order issue so I know that I’m retarded? Much obliged!

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