<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I had similar issues because the "Diskless" option was not turned on in Server Admin. Unless you specify Diskless, NetBoot will use the HD for shadow files and the like, and you will be unable to mount it because it is in use. If you force unmount it then the netboot image doesn't work properly.<div><br></div><div>To fix this we just went to Server Admin > NetBoot > Settings > Images and check the Diskless option for the image in question. This solved our issue.<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8776B3" size="4"><b style="color: rgb(135, 118, 179); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Ryan Harter</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8776B3" size="2">UW - Stevens Point</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8776B3" size="2">Workstation Developer</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8776B3" size="2">715.346.2716</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Ryan.Harter@uwsp.edu"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); ">Ryan.Harter@uwsp.edu</span></font></a></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Smith, William wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 2/3/09 2:44 PM, "Frederick, Scott A" <<a href="mailto:scott-frederick@uiowa.edu">scott-frederick@uiowa.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">During the Imaging process with Casper, we could not “Erase Macintosh HD”,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">even though we checked the box to do so. The process went extremely fast and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">no image was copied to the Target drive. Running Disk Utility would not<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">unmount the drive and allow us to repair it. Eventually we had to manually<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">moving the contents of the hard drive (by double clicking on the hard drive,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">selecting all the folders) to the trash and emptying the trash.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Anyone ever run into a scenario like this? Sounded like a damaged disk<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">directory, but the Target computer would reboot and function normally if we<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">did not image it.<br></blockquote><br>We've had issues with older Mac OSes and newer versions of Casper. For<br>example, we had an older Restore partition that was still at 10.4.4 but we<br>were trying to run Casper Imaging 6.01. That failed until I discovered this<br>was an old OS and updated it to 10.4.10.<br><br>-- <br><br>bill<br><br>William M. Smith, Technical Analyst<br>MCS IT<br>Merrill Communications, LLC<br>(651) 632-1492<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Casper mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Casper@list.jamfsoftware.com">Casper@list.jamfsoftware.com</a><br>http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>