help getting started with netrestore in SIU
I've been using Bombich's NetRestore and NetRestore helper for a few years to make images that I then wrote onto the mini being deployed using target disk mode. I've got 17 new ones that I need to image, and a 10.6 server and thought I'd see if I could do "real" NetRestore and both build the new boxes and update deployed boxes remotely from 10.5 to 10.6 versions of my image (along with other updates to local code). I've tried every hint I can find, and nothing lets me build an image for NetRestore. The window always comes up with "No valid source volumes were found." inside System Image Utility. both the server and client are running 10.6.3. I can follow the process of manually adding a work flow, and it lets me point to the right volume, but then never actually makes files.
I've tried the following:
making an image with NetRestore Helper and moving it up to the server
mounting the Mac Mini in question on the server in target disk mode
making an image off the Mac Mini in target disk mode and mounting the disk image
running sudo fsck_hfs -fry/dev/<device> in target disk mode, and then making an image after that
running SIU on my local MacBookPro instead of the server against an image.
All with the same result of being told there is no valid volume.
I'm not interesting in using some other product, unless it can image from a mounted volume or disk image, these are custom built monitoring stations with a lot of non-packaged installs that I don't have any desire to package.
I've used the image made with NetRestore Helper to build a mini using target disk mode, and it works just fine, so I know that the image is good.
Also, while I'm asking, two things I haven't been able to find
1) what's the format for files used in the post-process setting of the machine name (and can it also set IP info)?
2) if I tell it to use the existing host prefs for the already imaged machines, will it keep the name info and IP address?
many of these systems are deployed out onto other people's networks and need to go out with the fixed addresses they give us, so DHCP is not always an option.
If there is docs out there that I've missed that happen to have all of this handy info, a pointer would be appreciated. My Google-foo skilz have not been up to the task of finding what I'm doing wrong.
thanks,
-debbie
I've tried the following:
making an image with NetRestore Helper and moving it up to the server
mounting the Mac Mini in question on the server in target disk mode
making an image off the Mac Mini in target disk mode and mounting the disk image
running sudo fsck_hfs -fry/dev/<device> in target disk mode, and then making an image after that
running SIU on my local MacBookPro instead of the server against an image.
All with the same result of being told there is no valid volume.
I'm not interesting in using some other product, unless it can image from a mounted volume or disk image, these are custom built monitoring stations with a lot of non-packaged installs that I don't have any desire to package.
I've used the image made with NetRestore Helper to build a mini using target disk mode, and it works just fine, so I know that the image is good.
Also, while I'm asking, two things I haven't been able to find
1) what's the format for files used in the post-process setting of the machine name (and can it also set IP info)?
2) if I tell it to use the existing host prefs for the already imaged machines, will it keep the name info and IP address?
many of these systems are deployed out onto other people's networks and need to go out with the fixed addresses they give us, so DHCP is not always an option.
If there is docs out there that I've missed that happen to have all of this handy info, a pointer would be appreciated. My Google-foo skilz have not been up to the task of finding what I'm doing wrong.
thanks,
-debbie
Mac Mini Server, Mac mini workstations., Mac OS X (10.6.3)
