[nobrainer]

there’s some ad binding issues out there, ours was broken in 7.0 and still broken in 7.1

[nobrainer]

I thought that too, I built a 10.7 server, put on 8.21, made a 10.7 NBI… but every time I put down a lion image, the machine locks up. if I do a target boot the image comes down fine.

if I use my instaDMG image of lion, I can use my lion NBI and it images fine.

The only thing I can think of is that my JSS sits on a 10.6.8 machine (with the latest update 8.21), though booting the lion nbi from a 10.7server box I stood up.

[nobrainer]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: bostonmacosx[/u][p]OK UPDATE:

Changed to:

[code]sudo ./instadmg.bash -s -I ./InstallerFiles/BaseOS/InstallESD.dmg -n “Macintosh HD” -m 110802_LionTest[/code]
[/QUOTE]

Thank you for posting the command line 🙂
It’s creating an image for me, but I’m running Lion.

[nobrainer]

Am I reading this right? The instadmg.bash work with the Lion installer file as long as we don’t use instaup2date?

[nobrainer]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: patgmac[/u][p][QUOTE][u]Quote by: nobrainer[/u][p]I tried to hit the [url]http://www.osxdeployment.info/wiki/InstaUp2Date_Guide[/url]

And it returns….

NOTICE: This domain name expired on 07/08/2011 and is pending renewal or deletion.
[/p][/QUOTE]

They’re no longer using “.info”, it should be “.com” domain. [/p][/QUOTE]

Oh.
🙂

[nobrainer]

I tried to hit the [url]http://www.osxdeployment.info/wiki/InstaUp2Date_Guide[/url]

And it returns….

NOTICE: This domain name expired on 07/08/2011 and is pending renewal or deletion.

[nobrainer]

I transferred the files to a 10.6.7 box, copied and pasted the terminal commands into the 10.6.7 window and it seems like it’s running.

So maybe it was just lion.

[nobrainer]

It worked that way for the mini a while back, but it crashed on my test build 🙁

[nobrainer]

in the past, I’ve taken the 10.6.x delta image (the bigger one) layered that on, then taken the machine specific patch and layered that on. it’s worked well, booted all systems w/o issues. it’s allowed me to keep 1 image for all equipment…

[nobrainer]

awesome! I modified the old one this morning, but this is much cleaner.

Thank you for work on this!

[nobrainer]

fair enough, I wasn’t sure if instaDMG would handle slipstreaming the patches for it like it did for the OS.

Thank you!

[nobrainer]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: dead2sin[/u][p]If the files are in InstaUp2DatePackages, you do not need the full path. Also, It is worth nothing that you should never put stuff in 10.6_vanilla.catalog. Always make another catalog and call Vanilla using this:

[code]include-file: 10.6_vanilla.catalog[/code]

I’m not sure if you saw this guide or not, but it covers a lot of best practice type stuff and is a basic setup guide for InstaUp2Date: [url]http://www.osxdeployment.info/wiki/InstaUp2Date_Guide[/url]

There are some good examples there of catalog files and how you would want to string them together, etc. I’d suggest going through the guide and if you run into more issues/errors, feel free to ask.

Nate

[/p][/QUOTE]

Having gone through this same guide to complete a project here a couple weeks ago. Following it step by step will get you about 99.9% of the way through, even with doing some more advanced items. If you get stuck, just ask!

[nobrainer]

No, I wanted to know if there was a way to script out FW exceptions. The only thing I have found was to setup all the exceptions then copy the file to every box. However, that won’t merge the 2 files, that will overwrite them, so if user has a couple custom apps they won’t be retained.

[nobrainer]

I’m really disheartened to hear you go. With your hard work and the help from the message board you have been a HUGE help to me and have made a large impact on the mac community (it’s hard for me to talk to a mac admin who hasn’t at least heard of instaDMG and the expansive knowledge here).

Congrats!

[nobrainer]

They are all run as part of the firstboot.pkg file from the tutorial, but I could never find any log entries from the postflight.sh commands, only entries were from the firstboot.sh, which is why I combined the 2 files into firstboot.

I will go back and recheck the VNC / kickstart commands, maybe I deleted something when doing all the revisions.

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