[dead2sin]

What are you deploying your images with?

But to answer the question, I’d say that is an OK way to do it, but definitely not a good way to do it. If any of the permissions get screwed up it could get awful hairy, awful fast.

Nate

P.S. I couldn’t resist – Yo dawg, I heard you liked packages, so we put a package in your package so you can install while you install. (See[url] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg%5B/url%5D for explanation).

[dead2sin]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: mgb123[/u][p]Can those defaults be set in a preboot script, of are they only available post boot?[/p][/QUOTE]

I set the image that was applied during the DeployStudio workflow to a temp file, then upon firstboot I write the contents of that file to the ARD file. Works like a charm.

Nate

[dead2sin]

I’ve never used shutdown -r +1 before, so I can’t attest to its usage, but perhaps you could try this instead and see what it does.

[code]#Wait 60 seconds
sleep 60

#Reboot
reboot
[/code]

Nate

[dead2sin]

I set ARD field #1 to the name of the image that was applied.

Nate

[dead2sin]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: mgb123[/u][p]Nate,

thanks very much. I’ll post the script shortly. I do have a number of installs in there that seem to drag on forever – that’s the issue with post boot installs taking place in the background- I have no idea when they’re done.

I’m wondering if I should also be looking for some sort of way to indicate when installs have completed in the background, like a popup or something similar…[/p][/QUOTE]

Have you thought about using Munki? ([url]http://code.google.com/p/munki/[/url]) I use it for all my firstboot installs and it works wonderfully. Its a lot more refined then a firstboot script installing packages via commandline and can manage future software and patch installs as well.

Nate

[dead2sin]

If you don’t mind posting the script that is causing your grief to [url]http://pastebin.com/[/url] We can take a look at it and try to figure it out. So long as the script is running as root and has a reboot in it, it should work. Perhaps something else is getting hung up before the reboot.

Nate

[dead2sin]

Casper does everything. Munki is just the software/patch management piece.

[dead2sin]

I use munki as well, but the problem here is that Final Cut Studio 3 is 40gb by itself. I keep that baked into my image to save time installing it afterwards.

I’m not sure what else to say besides possibly rebuild FCS3 (Ack!!!!). Depends what you have time for to be honest.

Nate

[dead2sin]

Supporting disc isn’t meant to be used for the installer disc. So long as the installer disc is where importDisk.py puts it (InstaDMG/InstallerFiles/InstallerDiscs) it should find it and use it. So long as it is there, it has the build # in the file name and that build number is present in vanilla, it *should* work.

Nate

[dead2sin]

I forgot to post the latest office Update patcher. Here is version 0.4, it also handles the Communicator update.

[url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11466/InstaDMG%20PatchOfficeUpdate%200.4.dmg[/url]

Nate

[dead2sin]

So it works over firewire, but it doesn’t work when being deploying via DeployStudio even unicast? If it works deploying over firewire, I have a hard time believing there is a problem with the image. If it was an image problem, it shouldn’t work being applied with *any* method.

Nate

[dead2sin]

My image is right around 60gb compressed. I’m on gig though, so I guess I can get away with it.

So does it work properly when you image just one via unicast?

Nate

[dead2sin]

I can confirm my Composer CS5 package works with my InstaDMG image that I just built yesterday.

Nate

[dead2sin]

If it always works via firewire and never works via DeployStudio, then I’d say its not the image itself.

Multicast will resend packets that are dropped, so that shouldn’t have caused the issue, BUT, I would try imaging just one, non-multicast and see if it works or not. I don’t use multicast because I have not had the time to tune it properly for our network. I end up just pushing 26 unicast images out and waiting 4 hours 🙂

Image via FireWire and via Unicast using deploystudio and see what happens.

Nate

[dead2sin]

I rebuilt 3 images in the past 2 days, all 3 had CS5. I suppose the latest SVN I have is actually from last week, but nothing has changed since Jan 2.

I’ll double check CS5 when I get to work tomorrow. Something has to have changed on your setup besides InstaDMG…

Nate

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