Tuesday, October 18, 2011

DeployStudio rc129 and new MacBook Airs

The new Air shipped with a custom built 10.7.1, but now 10.7.2 supports these systems.
DeployStudio rc129 (latest stable) isn't capable of doing NetBoot sets from a 10.7.2 system, but the latest nightly is (111010). So how would you do to be able to NetBoot Airs with a DeployStudio NetBoot set and still use the latest stable release on the server?

Simple. Create a NetBoot set with the latest nightly on a 10.7.2 install (preferably in Fusion or Parallels). Take a copy of DeployStudio Admin (rc129) and copy into the NetBoot set and replace the one installed (111010).

Done! Now enable the NetBoot set on the server, and NetBoot the Air. Of course you have to have an 10.7.2 image to apply. Just download Lion from Mac App Store and extract the InstallESD.dmg and run InstaDMG or similar.

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