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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">Here's how we got old macs to boot...</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">We use the Casper NetInstall Creator to make a NetInstall package that launches Casper.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">On our older computers (eMacs, flat panel iMacs) we have had a lot of problems with them kernel panicing. Andy Hakala found a discussion on Bombich's site about this. It has to do with the new nVidia graphics drivers
and older computers. So, now after creating the netInstall set, I mount the dmg, and run this command:</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">kextcache -a ppc -m <locationofnbifolder>/ppc/mach.macosx.mkext -N -L /Volumes/Netinstall-Restore/System/Library/Extensions/</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman">This solves the panic attacks on the older macs. I have seen the hang on 'locating drive information', even on the NetInstall set, but haven't been able to do it consistently. I do agree, there is still a problem
in there, but we've at least solved one of our big ones!</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman">Netboot images haven't worked for us on ppc machines for some time due to a bug in OS X that I have open but was told not to expect it to ever be resolved... That's what moved us to NetInstall images.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman">John</font></div>
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John Wetter<br>
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Educational Technology, Media & Information Services<br>
Hopkins Public Schools<br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> casper-bounces@list.jamfsoftware.com [casper-bounces@list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Tatian Greenleaf [tgreenleaf@saintmarksschool.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 09, 2009 11:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Casper@list.jamfsoftware.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Casper] Problems netbooting emacs<br>
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<div>I would recommend talking to JAMF Support. This is a known bug with Casper 7. It is not possible to netboot PowerPC machines such as eMacs with the new version. Their recommendation was to use Apple's Net Install utility (the name escapes me at the
moment). I haven't had much luck with it (it netboots, but I can't figure out how to run Casper Imaging from the net install image), but that's the way I'm headed.
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Saint Mark's School<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Nelson Miller <span dir="ltr">
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #000080; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva" face="Geneva" color="#000080" size="+2">I have created a Net Install image using the Casper Net Install Creator. I used an emac and installed only
the retail copy of 10.5; then I downloaded and installed the Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update from Apple's website. That is all that was done to the image. Then I booted to an external drive that had Composer on it and ran through the OS Installer Package maker.
I then uploaded it to the Casper Server via Casper Admin. My Intel Macs can netboot to this Net Install image just fine (since Mac OS X is Universal Binary) but my eMacs can't.</font></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #000080; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva" face="Geneva" color="#000080" size="+2">When I do a netboot on my eMac it finally comes up to the Casper Imaging splash screen and I input my credentials.
After that they all get stuck on the "Locating Disk Information" part of the splash screen and it never gets to the part where I can choose a configuration.</font></div>
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