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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hello,<BR>
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I would strongly urge you to consider doing fresh installs for a major OS upgrade. Its a good standard practice as you probably don’t want to bring your Tiger baggage to the Leopard party.<BR>
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If you’re set on doing upgrades, you could use Netboot/Netinstall to perform the upgrades.<BR>
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If you are ok with wiping the system, here’s how I would approach it using Casper.<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><OL><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Add a script to your JSS that deletes everything on the target boot drive except /Users. (You may also want to rename all users’ Library folders to Library.tiger to avoid potential conflicts. By renaming rather than deleting, you or your clients can copy necessary items back into their new library folders.)
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Create autorun data for your target machine(s) containing your Leopard configuration and the above script as a “before” item. DO NOT check the box to erase the target drive.
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Boot target machines from an external, internal or netboot restore/utility partition (not the target drive), log in as root and run Casper.<BR>
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You can use Casper’s built in AD binding feature to bind to Active Directory. I use a dscl script to bind to Open Directory, and a similar script can be used for other directory services.<BR>
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I hope this helps.<BR>
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-- <BR>
Miles Leacy<BR>
Senior Macintosh Technician<BR>
Polo Ralph Lauren<BR>
212-318-7603<BR>
miles.leacy@poloralphlauren.com<BR>
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On 4/8/08 7:34 PM, "SChadda@oco.com" <SChadda@oco.com> wrote:<BR>
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How can I leverage netboot and casper to upgrade my people to leopard? And<BR>
keep their user profile ad binding etc intact?<BR>
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Netboot and then create a dmg of a leopard disk? Expand it. Do an os<BR>
upgrade?<BR>
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I don't want to do a rip and riimage.<BR>
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Anyone manage that.<BR>
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Or even a selfservice mode? Scary but useful!<BR>
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sent via a blackberry<BR>
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