Problems Directly Installing Yosemite from Self Service

[Eisiminger]

I'm having an issue trying to get Yosemite upgrade pushed out to students with locked down computers.
For 10.8 and 10.9 we had it set up to where they'd run a policy putting the installer.app in their applications, and then run a script targeting this the "Install OS X Whatever" executable file to run like so:

/Applications/Install OS X Mountain Lion.app/Contents/MacOS/Install OS X Mountain Lion&

But with 10.10 in the Contents/MacOS/ folder all there is is the InstallAssistant executable. Is there any way to get this to work?

[RobertHammen · Accepted solution]

Similar thread:

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=12234

White Paper:

http://www.jamfsoftware.com/resources/deploying-os-x-v10-7-or-later-with-the-casper-suite/

CreateOSXInstallPKG:

https://managingosx.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/createosxinstallpkg-and-yosemite/

[rtrouton]

We've started rolling out Yosemite via Self Service. Because I want to add some post-upgrade customization, I've been using createOSXinstallPkg and a firstboot package generated by First Boot Package Install Generator.app. So far, people have been upgrading themselves successfully.

[hkabik]

I used Munki's createOSXinstallPkg: https://github.com/munki/createOSXinstallPkg

to create a custom installer for it. Worked great and gave me the option to make the install unattended and include scripts to kill the nag screens and what not.

[davidacland]

+1 for createOSXinstallPkg. It works great and combined with the first boot script (guide on Rich Trouton's site) you can customize as needed, post install.

[Eisiminger]

Thanks for your help guys, Munki's scripts worked out really well!