Making Custom .dmg Images

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so.netbooting a netinstall.
any takers?

Of course, if you're lucky enough to have an Xserve setup with Netboot (using Netrestore Helper app to create this Netrestore boot image) then you can boot in a minute or so (instead of the 12-15min required by bootCD.
Or use a FireWire drive with a system on it to boot from.
Also, now a new option is Panther install CD1. In disk utility there is a new 'restore from image' option. this cd boots in a minute too.
cool
-x

true story.
Just lookin for some war stories on people who've setup netboot or install on os x server.

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
sudo asr -source (drag in the source image) -target (drag in the target drive) -erase -nocheck
Done, lot quicker than messin round with netrestore, netrestore works really really well when it does fully automated restores over a network or from a restore dvd, i have built quite a few automated restore dvd's as in chuck in the dvd choose it as the startup disk have a coffee come back in about 25-30 mins and its restored only prob with this is the 4.4Gb limit take out 600 odd meg for the netrestore system and it gives you about 3.7-3.8Gig for an image

Does that copy over the resource forks?

Dmg Image Is Corrupted

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.
NetRestore is really a gui front end to the command line ASR that Apple included since 10.2.3

Dmg Image Reader

#!/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

Script got screwed up , heres the script again below
Remember to chmod +x 'yourfile' after script is made.
This Script is assuming that the image is located in the same directory, and it is running of a firewire drive. From terminal prompt I type :
cd /Volumes/Firewire
./go ( I've named my script go , but to run it you must type ./ in front )
#!/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. Mac snow leopard download iso.
Reboot
#End Script
Hopes this helps someone.

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?

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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.
If Symantec or Apple , made a Cloning program that would be close to ' PC GHOST' that would be awesome. Multicast Broadcast Cloning , Over a Gigabit Switch would be FAST. Or if Apple would include Firewire Over IP in the ROM then I could Daisy chain A bunch of emacs to one Firewire Drive . Theres So many ways just the Tech is not here ..

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.
Not only did this take hours (I did 65 iMacs), but added the possibility of damaging the machines.
We don't have an XServe or anything fancy at this particular school site, so is there some tricky command line work around?
Thanks,
M@

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.

In that case i would netboot , or maybe create an image on a DVD-R thats bootable to a CLI , and start ASR.

What Is Dmg

? I am migrating to a powerbook and selling my G4 Tower. can i CCC my system and re-install the applications, etc. to my powerbook? Has anyone else done this and/or have an idea of going about it?
thanks in advance,
ken;