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reboot fixed it . . . anyone know why a reboot fixes installer disc identification issues? i seem to remember having this happen occasionally in the past, too.

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Hmmmmm . . . .I was able to import my 10.7.3 installESD.dmg file using the instaUptoDate importDisk.py script, so i have a ‘MacOS X Client 10.7.3 11D50.dmg file in InstallerDiscs, but running instaUptoDate gives me the ‘no valid installer discs found’ error.
11D50 is already listed in the catalog file:
Installer Disc Builds: 11A511, 11B26, 11C74, 11D50

And I verified the plist file in the DMG has 11D50 as well.

Any ideas?

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Yes I did- i’ve always used netrestore. is there some extra work to be done with netrestore now?
thanks, and sorry it took me so long to reply.

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: bw38[/u][p]I actually had this happen recently too when I used the Office 2011 SP1 iso from Microsoft. I just got my hands on it and decided to test it out, but it didn’t work. I didn’t really get to dig too much into it though since I have the original Office 2011 installer which works fine for me. I’m not sure if others have had similar issues either.

Could you tell us what installer of Office 2011 you’re using? And which patchers you’ve applied to it?[/p][/QUOTE]
I’m having the same issues with the SP1 iso- the patchers work, but office asks for a product key when launched.

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starting to wonder if this is netboot related. i just applied the same image without using netboot (ASR from disk utility instead) and got a journaled volume.

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Enabling it after imaging works normally.
I guess I could just add the diskutil command to enable journaling in my firstboot script, but unless I’m completely crazy, I used to get a journaled image without having to do that.

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hey willy, where’d you find the composer template? i used composer, too, but I just used a snapshot.

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so, the macAddress attribute was missing from that AD environment- I had the AD admin add it (he was surprised it was missing since it is in our production schema) and new machine accounts are populating it and applying policies successfully.

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oh, this was a silly mistake on my part. I shouldn’t have been enabling kerberos for SSH, and I left the lines from the example first boot package that enable kerberos in my image. I commented out the
[code]
KerberosAuthentication yes
KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
AllowGroups domaingroup admin
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from /etc/sshd_config and I can ssh again.

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ok, still no luck with defaults commands in the firstboot script. I bought the MCX book you mentioned and read it last night. Now, I’ve got a script that creates a local\MCX set up like the examples in the book with laptop and desktop groups. They’re working pretty well- I got the screensaver preference to work pretty much right away. i’m still having trouble setting the proxy, though- the preference is set in my computer’s group, mcxquery reports it’s being applied, but the actual setting never takes effect. bah. Anyway, that’s not really the same issue as this thread, so we don’t need to go into it here.

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i’ll let you know how it goes, I just don’t have time to work on that today, too many break fix tickets to work on.

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well, i know you can get the UUID that will be in the ByHost filename from IOReg by using

[code]
ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | grep -i “UUID” | cut -c51-62
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so I was thinking of just putting that in the script and saving the uuid as a variable that could be inserted into the commands as needed. haven’t had time today to try that out, though.

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yeah, they do.
I just realized, though, that most of these commands (screensaver, proxy, and softwareupdate) are ByHost prefs. Can you work with ByHost managed perferences in the firstboot/postflight scripts?

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I just realized all my current non-working commands were in the postflight script, so I tried moving them over to firstboot instead. still not working.

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ok, the DS Store files are now being suppressed, so that’s an improvement, but the other commands are still failing with the same errors in the log.

I also added some new commands that aren’t working either:
[code]
#Set system autoproxy and activate
$networksetup -setautoproxyurl Ethernet http://proxy.XXXXXXX.com
$networksetup -setautoproxystate Ethernet on

#Turns off softwareupdates schedule
$softwareupdate –schedule off
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I’ve got those in the firstboot script- is that appropriate or should they go in postflight?

And then these 2 are now in postflight and are not being executed:
[code]
#sets screensaver to prompt for password with no delay after starting
$defaults write “${PREFS_DIR}/com.apple.screensaver” askForPassword -int 1
$defaults write “${PREFS_DIR}/com.apple.screensaver” askForPasswordDelay -int 0
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any other ideas for these?

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