[hkim823]

Thanks for the notice on best practices when it comes to instadmg / chroot / building on a non production machine. Didn’t even think about it until you put it in those terms. I’ll see if I can use another machine to build from now on, but not having the convenience of DeployStudio with it’s package repository / NetBoot sets on the same box as instadmg does make it a little more of a pain to build now.

[hkim823]

You can add Wellesley College to the list. I love using instadmg for my initial creation of images to save me a ton of time and allowing me to create an image for each unique situation that requires it, instead of trying to manage a small number of goliath images that becomes way too cumbersome and messy.

Of course I just opened my eyes and saw that you were looking for names for macworld 2010, not thinking that it already happened. Really need my coffee right now

[hkim823]

Add me to the list to someone who is also trying to figure it out. I’m doing a manual install but it be great if I could get it onto the image.

[hkim823]

Something I just thought about that could be the issue / cause funny problems.

If I ran instadmg off a 10.6 Server box (faster processing, hopefully faster image building), but used 10.6 client DVD to build inside of instadmg, would that cause weird issues to arise?

[hkim823]

I did not pre create any users or use any scripts to pre create any users. It’s just as if the computer is ignoring the User Templates folder all together. Maybe I should try to fix permissions on the created DMG before I image?

I’ll use Disk Utility and try another image and see what goes down.

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