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QUESTION!!!! HELP PLEASE!!! #283

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Ok i am slightly confused. now if use createOSXinstallpkg to create an OS 
install package, and I put it onto a blank/erased/unlocked harddrive 
externally(in a usb enclosure), can I then put the HDD into the machines I want 
to deploy the installs on and will said HDD boot directly into the pkg? thus 
making emulating a clean fresh (straight-from-the-factory) initial install? Or 
am I just an idiot and missing something entirely?
I need to be able to re/clean/fresh-install OSX on several machines which have 
for one reason or another been rendered bootable/installable with various 
flavors of Linux successfully from a dvd, but OSX install blocked in every way. 
Refit, Refind, and various other bootloaders have been less than succesful.
The computers that come back to my department are used by students who like to 
do whatever they want and have been able to since there haven’t been any 
security options setup by my predecessor to prevent such lock-ups.
Apple just makes this a pain in the ass to do especially for multiple machines. 
And since these computers were all brand new out of the box donations by 
various people, which means we don’t have the purchase receipts and/or 
AppleCare for any of them (which by now would have expired anyway) obviously 
contacting apple about them has been fruitless as we don’t have the necessary 
funding to pay for every machine’s fix.
But I digress… Will these Volumes boot directly into the Install package, or 
do I need to do something else? I am either a idiot or just missing something. 
Please help!!!!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Mattyg...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2014 at 4:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Please post on munki-dev.

Original comment by gregnea...@mac.com on 4 Mar 2014 at 5:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by gregnea...@mac.com on 4 Mar 2014 at 5:02