ASR Command Line Tool

By: Scott Doenges - Revised: 2006-05-24 devin


Introduction

ASR for Mac OS X, which is now available to the public as a command-line tool in Mac OS X 10.2.2, allows you to create mass-deployable OS 9 or OS X images for ASR or NetBoot.

Scott will give an overview of ASR's capabilities, and demonstrate some third-party tools which automate creating ASR images. Including Disk Copy 10.2.2, Carbon Copy Cloner 2.1.1 and ImageJaguar.sh.

Table Of Contents
  • General Info
    • An overview of Apple Software Restore (ASR) including system requirements, how it works, setup, and common issues.

  • ASR via Disk Copy/Command-line
    • Learn how to clean up your source Mac, create an ASR image with Disk Copy or command-line, and restore an ASR image with command-line.

  • ASR via Carbon Copy Cloner 2.1
    • Learn how to create an ASR image with Carbon Copy Cloner and learn about the weaknesses of Carbon Copy Cloner when it comes to restoring ASR images.

  • ASR via imageJaguar .75a
    • Learn how to create and restore an ASR image with imageJaguar.

  • Links