Project OSX: August 18, 2014 OBJECTIVE: Do the same with OSX as I do for Windows: Deploy images of OSX with many applications installed similar to my images of Windows Separate the data folders from the OSX partition Image the OSX partition and provide a rescue HARDWARE: Recent model Mac PC, spare 160 GB Desktop hard disk, 16 & 64 GB flash drives, USB to SATA adapter, high speed Internet access SOFTWARE: OSX 10.8.4 Mountain Lion secured by Little Snitch firewall, Avast Antivirus, Cleanmymac2 Tools: IFL, ipartition, Tuxera NTFS for Mac, Transmac, Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery Firefox, chrome, Skype, Java 7 update 67, Flash 14 plugin, iTunes 11.3 Adobe CS6 (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, Acrobat), Office 2011, Camtasia Studio 2, Virtual DJ, Handbrake, MacX DVD Ripper, VLC Media Player, Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor Transmission, METHOD: Used Windows desktop PC to download OSX 10.8.4 installation software (5 GB) Reset forgotten password on target Intel I5 Macbook Pro by following 1st method: http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/ Logged on target laptop. Copied OSX 10.8.4 OSX 10.8.4 installation software to target laptop Used Disk Utility to create a OSX 10.8.4 USB installer on 8 GB parttion of 16 Gb flash drive by following Macworld: http://www.macworld.com/article/1167857/how_to_make_a_bootable_mountain_lion_install_drive.html It may be easier to follow this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rme9p3xT9I It may be possible to use Tranmac on a Windows PC to create a OSX 10.8.4 USB installer on 8 GB flash drive by following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuTGCFmR_XM Installed OSX 10.8.4 from USB flash drive onto spare 80 GB laptop hard disk: Replaced target internal 500 GB laptop hard disk with spare 80 GB laptop hard disk Installed IPartition Partitioned the target 500 GB laptop hard disk: Removed spare 80 GB laptop hard disk and inserted target 500 GB laptop hard disk Using target laptop hard disk and Disk Utility on OSX 10.8.4 USB instaler, I cretaed 3 partitions, the first, 60 Gb HFS, 2nd, 65 GB Fat 32, 3rd, remaining free space Installed OSX 10.8.4 from USB flash drive onto the 60 GB partition on target 500 GB laptop hard disk Used iPartition to Crteate 65 GB NTFS data partiton on target 500 GB laptop hard disk: Removed target 500 GB laptop hard disk and inserted spare 80 GB laptop hard disk While booted into OSX 10.8.4 from spare 80 GB latop hard disk with the target 500 GB laptop hard disk attached via USB, I used IPartition to create on the target 500 GB laptop hard disk a 65 GB NTFS data partition below that of OSX 10.8.4: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/iPartition.shtml Used Tuxera NTFS for Mac so OSX 10.8.4 can write to NTFS data partition: Removed spare 80 GB laptop hard disk and inserted target 500 GB laptop hard disk Installed Tuxera NTFS for Mac so OSX 10.8.4 can write to NTFS data partition http://download.cnet.com/Tuxera-NTFS/3000-2094_4-75711169.html Moved to the 65 GB NTFS data partition, the home folder of user account: http://macs.about.com/od/diyguidesprojects/qt/Move-Your-Home-Folder-To-A-New-Location.htm Used desktop PC to download software listed above. Then copied them to the 64 GB flash drive Installed software applications and created shortcuts: Installed Google Chrome addons to download and convert YouTube videos: http://lifehacker.com/5919997/how-to-install-extensions-that-arent-from-the-official-chrome-web-store http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/Chrome-Extensions/Ultimate-YouTube-Downloader.shtml http://vidconv.net/addon/download/ Alternatively, you can convert Youtube Videos without installing any software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJIIk-270PM Copied the FREE Education to the 65 GB data partition and created shortcuts: http://drpcdr.ca/education.htm Took control of startup and login items by following: http://www.macworld.com/article/2047747/take-control-of-startup-and-login-items.html Setup Little Snitch firewall so cracked software will not become deactivated: http://www.macworld.com/article/2017161/mac-gems-little-snitch-snitches-on-misbehaving-apps.html Adjusted power saving settings by following: https://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_power_mgt_manual_act_mac Duplicated IFL boot CD to enable users to burn a copy should they lose the original I give them Customized dock: Finder, launchpad, Skype, Firefox, Google Chrome, safari, calculator, calendar, photo booth, VLC, iTunes, word, powerpoint, Excel, outlook, STUFF, trash Optimized the performance of OS X 10.8.4 by running CleanmyMac2: http://download.cnet.com/CleanMyMac-2/3000-2094_4-10904833.html Connected target laptop to Internet via wireless and completed setup of Little Snitch firewall Used IFL to copy the entire hard disk. Took approx. 15+ minutes: Removed target 500 GB laptop hard disk and connected it to desktop PC Connected the entirely free space 160 GB desktop hard disk to desktop PC source = target 500 GB laptop hard disk target = entirely free space 160 GB desktop hard disk http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm Connected to laptop, via USB adapter, the cloned 160 GB desktop hard disk and booted OSX 10.8.4 from it Used IFL to create single 47 GB image file of the entire hard disk. Took approx. 40+ minutes: Connected the cloned 160 GB desktop hard disk to desktop PC Connected working hard disk to desktop PC source = Cloned 160 GB desktop hard disk target = Working hard disk with folder for osx images, created earlier while booted into Windows from this hard disk Used IFL to restore from single 47 GB image file of the entire hard disk. Took approx. 15+ minutes: Connected entirely free space target 500 GB laptop hard disk Connected working hard disk to desktop PC source = Working hard disk folder for osx images, image of the cloned 160 GB desktop hard disk target = entirely free space target 500 GB laptop hard disk Used IPartition to resize to max capacity the 65 GB data partition on target 500 GB laptop hard disk. Took a few seconds: Connected the 80 GB spare laptop hard disk with OSX 10.8.4 to target laptop Attached target 500 GB laptop hard disk to target laptop via USB source = target 500 GB laptop hard disk connected via USB target = 65 GB data partition on target 500 GB laptop hard disk. Resized to 404.43 GB Used IFL to create on the data partition of target 500 GB laptop hard disk, Backup1, a 14 GB rescue image of the OSX 10.8.4 partition. Took 17+ minutes: Installed target 500 GB laptop hard disk into target laptop source = 60 GB OS_X partition of target 500 GB laptop hard disk target = 65 GB Data partition of target 500 GB laptop hard disk Restored the rescue image, 14 GB Backup1, from data partition of target 500 GB laptop hard disk to its OS_X partition. Took 10+ minutes: source = 14 GB 65 GB Data partition of target 500 GB laptop hard disk c target = 60 GB OS_X partition of target 500 GB laptop hard disk DISCUSSION AND RESULTS: Deployment of images of OSX will require booting from IFL CD. Then boot from spare hard disk containing OSX so that the OS X and data partitions of target hard disk can be resized to fit. by holding down the options key at boot, OSX can boot from hard disk attached via USB. If Mac PC has no CDROM, an external CDROM may be attached via USB. If removal of internal hard disk is simple then the TARGET hard disk can be attached to a desktop PC. If removal of internal hard disk is difficult then the following options are available: working hard disk can be attached to a target laptop via usb to deploy the image of entire hard disk from single image file Cloned bootable hard disk of OS X 10.8.4 attached to a target laptop via usb to copy the entire cloned hard disk to target According to Finder the OS X 10.8.4 Mac OS Extended (journaled) partition consumes 20.8 GB of 65. GB total The NTFS data partition consumes 32.13 GB of 69.79 GB total. The education on data partition consumes 31.89 GB of total 32.13 GB consumed Activity monitor shows total sytem memory of 4 GB, 1.92 GB free, 1.14 GB wired, 724.6 MB active, 239.1 MB inactive, 2.08 GB used Activity monitor shows 20.29 GB consumed, 44.71 GB free of total 65 GB OS X partition Activity monitor shows 32.13 GB consumed, 37.67 GB free of total 69.79 GB Data partition The IFL image of OS X 10.8.4 and data partitions consume 47 GB on my desktop hard disk. It takes 40 minutes to create the single 47 GB IFL image file of entire hard disk It takes 15 minutes to restore the 47 Gb single IFL image file of entire hard disk It takes 15 minutes to clone or copy entire hard disk IFL has a 30 day limit. In order to restore images that were created more than 30 days ago, the system date must be set back to the same month and year the IFL image was created: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060814075952448 Ideally one needs the flexibilty to resize the OS X and data partitions to suit the needs of users The OS X partition may be resized by IPartition. However, this procedure consumes too much time. In order to paste an IFL rescue image of the OS X partition onto the data partition, the data partition must equal or exceed the size of OS X partition. The Mac Book performed well. I had trouble creating a stable 2nd user account. Therfore, my image of OS X 10.8.4 contains one single user account. I did not find a simple way to manually set the swap partitions which act like virtual memory. In Windows this is a simple task. OS X in 21 days! This project was completed in 21 days in Aug 2014 See: http://drpcdr.ca/pics/Mac_Book_Pro.JPG http://drpcdr.ca/pics/MB_Pro_Apps_1.JPG http://drpcdr.ca/pics/MB_Pro_Apps_2.JPG http://drpcdr.ca/pics/MB_Pro_Data.JPG