This is the droid you're looking for

This repository is designed to help build a "Droid".. an external hard drive used in troubleshooting, and often performing data recovery on OS X based computers.

Setup

Install a clean OS, created a user named Droid

• Install Packages.app

• Create a folder called /Users/Shared/Development for use as common starting ground in this package's scripts.

• Clone this repo*

git clone https://github.com/watchmanmonitoring/the-droid-you-are-looking-for.git /Users/Shared/Development/the-droid-you-are-looking-for

• Review the system wide settings to be applied in

 /Users/Shared/Development/the-droid-you-are-looking-for/droid-prep/postinstallation 

• Install the suggested applications into /Applications

• Open droid-prep.pkgproj in Packages.app and remove any Applications you don't intend to bundle.

• Configure the Droid's user environment as desired.

• This command will strip data from the "droid" user account and build a package which preserves the setup.

/Users/Shared/Development/the-droid-you-are-looking-for/carbon-freeze.sh

*(If you'd rather tweak it yourself, consider Forking this, which would change the URL for cloning.

What about autodmg | deploystudio | etc?

The process described in this repo is designed to get a person up and running with a usable external hard drive quickly. It is possible that some work environments may benefit from a more formal deployment, especially when something like autodmg or DeployStudio are already in use.

A major difference is that this package is designed for a technician's use as a diagnostic drive on the latest, perhaps beta, OS X.