Mac Users - what is the correct method for creating a disk image?
15 July 2007, 11:13 AM
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Mac Users - what is the correct method for creating a disk image?
As title really.....
Trying to create a "master" image that I can put onto a room of Macs.
All I'm finding at the moment is that Disk Utility is sh1te
Yes, I know that 10.5 will have the right apps, but at the moment, it seems very difficult.
I'm getting I/O errors and everything..... I've tried putting the "source" machine into Target Firewire mode and building the image from another Mac. No joy.
Is there a correct method, as I'm obviously doing something wrong
DAn
Trying to create a "master" image that I can put onto a room of Macs.
All I'm finding at the moment is that Disk Utility is sh1te
Yes, I know that 10.5 will have the right apps, but at the moment, it seems very difficult.
I'm getting I/O errors and everything..... I've tried putting the "source" machine into Target Firewire mode and building the image from another Mac. No joy.
Is there a correct method, as I'm obviously doing something wrong
DAn
15 July 2007, 01:04 PM
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In my Uni we use Netrestore
Bombich.com: Mac OS X Deployment and Management Solutions
the above has good info on it
will these be just Mac images (i.e just cloaning Tiger)
not sure if this is the best way though
for single machines I used SuperDuper when copying to a firewire disk but again, not sure if better ways are available
SuperDuper! 2.1.4 - Mac OS X - VersionTracker
Bombich.com: Mac OS X Deployment and Management Solutions
the above has good info on it
will these be just Mac images (i.e just cloaning Tiger)
not sure if this is the best way though
for single machines I used SuperDuper when copying to a firewire disk but again, not sure if better ways are available
SuperDuper! 2.1.4 - Mac OS X - VersionTracker
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15 July 2007, 01:37 PM
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I'm with Mike on this, use NetRestore. I've only used the NetRestore Helper part of it, which allows me to make an image of my XP/Vista partition and restore it whenever I need to, and it would allow me to restore it to any machine if I so desired. You can do the same thing with a Mac partition, as that is the normal use for NR.
16 July 2007, 02:51 PM
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OK - getting some issues with this
Won't let me create an image of the Macintosh HD........ well, gets so far, then dies "Failed to create disk image"
I've looked on the Forum, but there's alot of unanswered posts, and it's a bit "techie".....
Should I be running the Mac that needs to be cloned in Firewire Target Mode?
You'd have thought that cloning a disk was relatively simple!!!
Dan
Won't let me create an image of the Macintosh HD........ well, gets so far, then dies "Failed to create disk image"
I've looked on the Forum, but there's alot of unanswered posts, and it's a bit "techie".....
Should I be running the Mac that needs to be cloned in Firewire Target Mode?
You'd have thought that cloning a disk was relatively simple!!!
Dan
16 July 2007, 02:54 PM
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How and what is dying? Any error logs?
How do you have things set up? Are you booted from the OS that you are trying to clone? Are you saving the image to the drive you are trying to clone?
I tend to agree that the Mac you want to clone should be put into TDM and then clone it to another drive and see if it works.
How do you have things set up? Are you booted from the OS that you are trying to clone? Are you saving the image to the drive you are trying to clone?
I tend to agree that the Mac you want to clone should be put into TDM and then clone it to another drive and see if it works.
16 July 2007, 03:06 PM
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15:03:49 FAILURE_HDIUTIL: could not access /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Applications/iWeb.app/Contents/Resources/no.lproj/Templates/Blog/Notebook Blog.webtemplate/index.xml.gz - No space left on device
hdiutil: create failed - No space left on device
This is from the Log....
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hdiutil: create failed - No space left on device
This is from the Log....
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16 July 2007, 03:23 PM
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Well, it's run out of disk space . The path is mentions, is that the volume you are booted from and imaging or the volume on which you are creating the image? I ask as if it's the volume the image is being created from and you're booted from that drive then it might be creating a temp file of things somewhere on that image, thus using up space and causing the problem.
It might simply be there isn't enough free space on the volume you're trying to save the image to.
. The path is mentions, is that the volume you are booted from and imaging or the volume on which you are creating the image? I ask as if it's the volume the image is being created from and you're booted from that drive then it might be creating a temp file of things somewhere on that image, thus using up space and causing the problem.It might simply be there isn't enough free space on the volume you're trying to save the image to.
320Gig on the destination drive and a good 70Gig on the Mac HD....
16 July 2007, 04:57 PM
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yeh. Will try and replicate it home now.
Had the MBP as the main machine, firewire targetted the Mac Mini with the drive in the middle.
Same thing.
Will have another try later - having a cuppa now
DAn
Had the MBP as the main machine, firewire targetted the Mac Mini with the drive in the middle.
Same thing.
Will have another try later - having a cuppa now
DAn
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