As i noted in my other USB Boot article USB 2.0 is not fast enough to boot the OS is a reasonable amount of time. Apple has done the work for us and gave us a fast booting USB OS on their Installation media. One downside is there is no SMB support which Kace needs. I have worked around it, but its not ideal. If you modify your pre or post image scripts you must manually copy them to your USB drives. Also, this only supports K-Image, it may work with DMG but you will need a large USB Drive. I would suggest you use the other method and install a full OS X to the drive.
Mount the DMG that is in Install OS X Mavericks -> Contents -> Shared Support
open /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg
Write this DMG to your usb key. After this is done we are going to make some changes.
Kace needs some Perl libraries. Copy the following:
/System/Library/Perl and /Library/Perl to the same location on your USB
Create the following folders
{USB}/opt/kace/peinst and {USB}/opt/kace/petempCopy the following directories from your K2/peinst to {USB}/opt/kace/peinst. If you have a large PC post job you can delete it from applications after you copy the directory.
applications, macosx, scripts and preinstall
Copy sudo from /usr/bin to you flash drive. The permissions must be 700 with the owner being root. I had to do this with the USB drive booted.
Edit the following file:
{USB}//System/Installation/CDIS/OS X Utilities.app/Contents/Resources/Utilities.plist
And add the following dict to the buttons array.
<dict>
<key>BundlePath</key>
<string>/opt/kace/peinst/macosx/bin/K2000 Imaging Utility.app</string>
<key>DescriptionKey</key>
<string>Kace Imaging Tool.</string>
<key>Path</key>
<string>/opt/kace/peinst/macosx/bin/K2000 Imaging Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/K2000 Imaging Utility</string>
<key>TitleKey</key>
<string>Kace Imaging Tool</string>
</dict>
Edit /etc/rc.cdrom and insert the following before launchctl towards the bottom.
RAMDisk /opt/kace/petemp 8024
create the following file make sure it is executable (chmod +x)
{USB}/usr/local/sbin/get_kbox_serverThis should return the IP or Name of your K2 or RSA. The most simplest form of this scripts can be
echo k2000
if your k2 is named K2000. Your you can add custom logic in this file to find the nearest server.
You Should now have a USB key that has less than 2GB of data that you can image machine from.
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