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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>We just got in about 20 Mac Mini’s that we need to image and get to associates this week and I’m seeing some weird behavior during imaging. The install will kick off and get about 95% through the OS package install and lock up the entire OS. Sometimes it will reboot after a while and come up in the image like everything worked fine, and sometimes it’ll stay frozen and never recover. This seems to be happening randomly and I can’t figure out if it’s a device model issue, a server issue, or a JSS issue. Here’s some specifics on our setup.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><OL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Running NetBoot on a PowerMac G5 Server running OS X Server 10.5.8.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The NetBoot image is diskless.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The NetBoot image was built on a device and then captured on the Server using Firewire Target Disk Mode. We didn’t use the NetInstall creator.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I built the base OS package from the restore disk for the Mac Mini. It isn’t working with my 10.5.7 package built from a MBP disk so I tried the Mini disk.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>When the Mini netboots. I’m seeing two dock icons for Casper Imaging like it’s launched twice.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Sometimes before the OS package install kicks off, I get a password prompt asking for a password to mount the CasperShare even though it’s already mounted from whenever Casper Imaging launched and asked for a username and password.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Sometimes Casper Imaging will skip the OS package and run through the other packages. The Mini will reboot to the folder with a question mark screen indicating no OS could be found. <BR>
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