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PSU Blast Image Config (aka "BIC") is a complete software solution to quickly restore and configure a Macintosh back to a known state:
- Configure and set the Open Firmware security, preventing unauthorized access via single (root) user mode or booting from external devices
- Set the date and time
- Restore a master disk image quickly to a Mac's internal hard disk
- Configure the network settings on the restored disk (via ncutil):
- IP Address : DHCP or Manual (Static)
- Subnet Mask & Router
- DNS Servers
- Network Names (Computer and Local)
- Change the startup disk to the restored disk
- Extensible through pre- and post-restore scripts
- Specify default and autorun settings via a preference file
This tool is intended to automate the build process as much as possible. We use BIC here at PSU to do the initial install of the base OS and applications on all of our lab and kiosk Macs.
What's New:
Version 2.0b14: - New Feature: Calculating the amount of space (block size and blocks used) a restore image will require and checking that the selected disk is large enough to hold that data; If the disk is too small, then a warning is displayed and the restore disk is NOT modified or erased. The previous behavior was to allow asr to do what it normally does - erase the disk first and THEN check to see if the image would fit. This wasn't good for when you'd only want to upgrade the Mac if the image data would fit, otherwise, leave the Mac still possibly usable with an older system.
- Fixed bug where dialog reporting that there weren't any available disks to restore too would not be the top most dialog displayed.
- Added code to detect if disks were already being scanned for when the main "Restore" dialog becomes frontmost.
Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.2 or later, ncutil MUST be installed if you wish to be able to configure the network settings on the restored disk.
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