Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment

DeployStudio: Creating a New Master Image

Once you have been using DeployStudio for a time, you’ll invariably end up creating a new master image.  This is a hot topic this summer, given that Apple will be releasing Mac OS X 10.6 later this year and many people integrating DeployStudio want to make sure that they can manage the solution themselves during the subsequent updates.  Provided you have been leveraging all of the best in package based imaging this might be a relatively small file, or if you are using a monolithic image for distribution it might be a fairly large file.  Either way, DeployStudio makes it fairly straight forward to create a new master image.  To do so, first get your imaging station ready using similar techniques to how you have created your master images (known in DeployStudio as Masters) in the past.  Then follow these straight forward instructions:

Creating a Master Image from an Imaging Station Using DeployStudio
Creating a Master Image from an Imaging Station Using DeployStudio