<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey everyone-<div><br></div><div>Just wanted to chime in from JAMF on a few things... </div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "><i>The base Mac OS X software is installed using block copy if you </i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "><i>create a</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "><i>package. :-) But then you don't get the flexibility of multiple</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "><i>configurations for one package file. :-(</i></div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; ">I'm not sure I follow. An image would be block copied to a target </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; ">computer. A pkg installer would be a file copy. Are you saying Casper </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; ">has a way of doing block copy using a pkg installer?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; ">Not sure if I'm confusing things. If we have an image containing OS X </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; ">and common applications/tools (essentially, stuff every computer at </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; ">the firm needs), can Casper deploy that image? Can the deployment </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; ">p<span></span>rocess include running pkg installs for additional software?</div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; ">I think that the main issue here is related to our rather liberal use of the term package. We don't limit the use of the term package to only PKG and MPKG packages. We also consider the following items "packages":</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; ">- Disk images of an OS ("OS Package")</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; ">- Disk images of any files that mirror the directory structure ("DMG Package")</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; ">- Disk images of a Mac OS X Installer DVD ("OS X Installer Package")</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; ">- Disk images of an Adobe Installer DVD ("Adobe Installer Package")</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; ">- Disk images of an Adobe Updater ("Adobe Updater Package")</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; ">- Winclone bundle ("Winclone Package")</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; ">The imaging process is capable of utilizing any combination of these at installation time. The Adobe installers actually have to run the silent installation at the time of the first reboot (that is automated with the same process that handles the directory bindings at reboot), but all other installers run before the reboot. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">FileWAVE can also do a upgrade in place as well...the white paper<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">needs to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">be updated since you can in fact do a Tiger>Leopard upgrade in place <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">as<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">scripting takes care of the old roadblocks:<br></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><br></font>It would be great if JAMF had a plan to add this kind of functionality <br>to Casper.<br><br>Don<br></div></blockquote></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><br></div></body></html>