Disk Utility Ghosting
On partition 1 I installed Mac OS X Installer, so that I could install OS X directly from the hard drive volume to other hard drive volumes. The procedure worked flawlessly for this as outlined at:
http://guides.macrumors.com/InstallingMac_OS_X_10.4_withoutDVD
On partition 2 I installed a working copy of OS X, updated, Xcode tools added, and configured with Webmin, PHP, MySQL, Asterisk, SNORT, MapServer, Apache, BIND, and CHROOTED OpenSSH, which I want to duplicate on multiple servers. I then made a new compressed disk image from disk (no encryption) using Disk Utility version 10.5.3 (198.5), saving the image to partition 3.
I then erased partition 2, and used the Restore function of Disk Utility to attempt to restore the disk image to partition 2. It came back with "An error (16) occurred while copying. (Resource busy)". I then attempted to scan the image for restore - On the Restore panel it states "You can prepare a disk image for restoring by selecting 'Scan image for Restore' from the Images menu. This allows a volume to be checksummed after a disk image is restored." It came back with "Unable to scan "diskls14.dmg" - internal error".
Somewhat flummoxed, I ran Disk Utility First Aid on the entire Firewire drive, and it came back with "Verify volume failed with error Could not unmount disk. 1 HFS volume checked. Volume passed verification." Indeed I could not unmount the volume or eject the drive from the desktop. After restarting the computer, I repeated everything doing Disk Utility First Aid first (which came up clean) - after repeating EVERYTHING above, I got the same error messages, including the "Could not unmount disk" error.
Any suggestions? Should Disk Utility be able to do this, or is it outside its scope? Other postings on here regarding ghosting suggest using FireWire target disk mode ( http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583), which I cannot do as I would need my PowerBook G4 configuration to be the one I want to replicate. And other postings suggest NetBoot alternatives with the Mac OS X Lab Deployment Workshop ( http://www.bombich.com/mactips/workshop.html).
Steve Garner
1.5 GHz PowerBook G4, 1 GB DDR SDRAM, External 30 GB TOSHIBA MK3017GAS Media Firewire drive, Mac OS X (10.4.5), Disk Utility Version 10.5.3 (198.5)