Hi Sven We have a bank of mac minis that we are going to have to boot camp to get Softimage up and running. You don't happen to know if they newer ghosts work with bootcamp.
Kind regards Angus From: Sven Constable <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday 16 May 2013 9:13 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: Running Softimage without installing it. For installing on rendernodes as well as workstation, this is how I do it: 1. All rendernodes are the exact same hardware. Same for the workstations. 2. Install OS and apps on one machine and make workgroups, users, security settings etc. until everything is perfect. A kind of master machine to make an image from, to be later distributed to other machines. 3. I do a windows-sysprep to wipe machine-specific settings (computer name, windows serial, windows-workgroup). Then I make an image via ghost. 4. Distribute ghost image to unlimited machines in one go using multicast. 5. Log in on every machine once, to set name, workgroup and windows-serial. I set up 8 machines recently with an earlier created image in about 1-2h. I'm pretty sure this procedure could be even more automated for large farms. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mirko Jankovic Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 20:22 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Running Softimage without installing it. Now thinking about it... wouldn't it be good and even needed to have beside install option on installer something like install to render nodes or something to help out mass installation? Even on 10 more computers is time consuming now add a 0 there or something.. How are you guys handling installation and management on small and medium render farms at all? Installation, upgrades, addons and upgrades of addons... Sorry for a bit of a hijack but it is kinda same topic right? On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Francois Lord <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi. In my never ending quest to find a way to install Softimage automatically and simply on all machines, I have yet again hit a road block. Last year, after several days of failed attempts, I resorted to installing it manually on my machine and copying the folder on the other machines. I had to copy the ProductInformation.pit file from C:\Program Data and I had to run the runonce.bat file. And then all was well and dandy. Easily scriptable and no human intervention required. This year however, things seem different. When I do the same, Softimage can't find a license. This is where the ProductInformation.pit file was required last year, but it seems it's not enough now. I noticed there is a new License.env file in the Application\bin folder. But it contains the right informations about our license server since I ran the installer on my machine. I don't know if it has anything to do with all this. Any one has bits of info on this? Thanks. Francois <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table
