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Creating and restoring OS X disk images
err or you could just boot the machine from another source firewire or cd (if ya got hell time to spare) and drop into terminal and go
Creating and restoring OS X disk images
Does that copy over the resource forks?
Creating and restoring OS X disk images
yes it does. ASR does block file copies as long as the image being used is prepared as an ASR compatible image file. Best done as read only/compressed. Restores are much faster.
Booting from OSX Server CD
At our School District, I'm the Only Tech we have. After we put an order for 160 eMacs, I had to come up with an efficient method of cloning them. I found the following the best method for me. First I booted off the OSX 10.2 Server CD , this gave me access to a terminal session. Second I Attached a Firelite Firewire Drive with my image ( of course my image was done via CCC ). I also made a simple SH script to Automate the ASR command and switches. The whole process takes under 10 minutes for a 3.3 GB image. The following is my simple script , that helps ....
#!/bin/sh # ASR Image Bash Script # Manuel Plascencia Alhambra School District # Apple System Restores from "Source" Macintosh_asr.dmg to "target" /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/ (Make sure Target Volume has the correct name) # -erase "erases target volume first" # -nocheck "skips checksum" ( this will cut your cloning in half ) # -noprompt "will continue cloning with other user interaction" asr -source Macintosh_asr.dmg -target /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/ -erase -nocheck -noprompt #Put a Stupid message Echo Alhambra School District !!!! Echo Echo Done !!! Echo Echo Enjoy !!! #This will reboot machine once cloning is complete. #You will hear the reboot chime which will give you #notification of clone completion. Reboot
Readable Script
Script got screwed up , heres the script again below
Readable Script
don't you'd think you'd benefit from netbooting the install images, and installing them over the network, rather than lug a drive around?
Lugging around
Firewire drive fit in your pocket , and they weigh nothing . Besides all 150+ eMacs are in one location , in boxes. Netboot would be 4 times as slow and that is not including the Bandwidth that would be shared with X amount of eMacs , cloning would crawl unless i had a Gigabit Switch. in comparison, firewire is the Best solution.
What about old iMacs?
This method is all well and good, assuming that the machines are all Firewire enabled. What about older iMacs or the non-DV models. I was physically taking out the drives, putting them into a firewire bay and using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone them from a master drive.
What about old iMacs?
Create a bootup OSX CD as mentioned, boot up the old iMac from that CD, and connect up to a network share that has the image. |
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