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Create a customized 10.3 'Rescue CD/DVD'
Superboy, thank you so much for this last step to the process. That was really blocking me. It still took me a minute to figure out which plist to edit. Control-click Installer.app, choose Show Package Contents. Go to Contents:Resources and edit the InstallerMenuAdditions.plist with new <dict></dict> sections for each new app. Also copy the actual app files into the applications:utilities folder that holds the installer.app.
Create a customized 10.3 'Rescue CD/DVD'
Thanks, merch, for further clarification, without which I don't think this hint will work. However, even further clarification is necessary: when you add the <dict> entries to the InstallerMenuAdditions.plist file, you need to specify the path to the "app inside the app"--follow the format and path of the other entries in that plist file. Specifying just the name of the app as visible on its Finder icon won't work--it won't launch.
I'm surprised enough that the person who posted this hint left out the step of modifying the InstallerMenuAdditions.plist file, so that I wonder if the disc he was modifying needed to have its Installer.app plist file modified. Maybe different installer discs have different requirements here? I can't see how though--as far as I can tell, if you don't modify the Installer app's InstallerMenuAdditions.plist file to list the apps you want to launch, they won't show up under the OS X Installer's File menu. You may also have to delete something from your disk image of the Installer disc, to get enough free space to add the apps you want. Try deleting one of the packages at System/Installation/Packages, since you won't be using the disc as an installer disc. Diskwarrior appears to be one of the exceptions that won't work using this hint. I tried it, following merch's clarification; at Diskwarrior.app/Contents/MacOS, the only likely items are "Diskwarrior", which launches Terminal, which then launches Diskwarrior, and there's DiskWarriorStarter.app, but it doesn't do anything when you try to launch it; neither path would allow Diskwarrior to launch from the Installer's File menu--the Installer app just relaunched. It seems most of this hint describes the author's extra steps he found necessary to make a copy of his possibly damaged installer DVD--I've never had this problem. The installer CDs and DVDs aren't copy-protected. I think most people won't have to follow his disc copying steps. The steps he describes, however, are useful if you do have to copy a problematic disc. A utility that's supposed to be able to make bootable CDs and DVDs is Clone X 2, from www.tri-edre.fr. However, I don't know what the limitations might be on using such a disc as a utility disc.
Create a customized 10.3 'Rescue CD/DVD'
Sorry--that should read "the OS X Installer's 'Installer' menu", not its File menu--the Installer menu is where you find the utilities for the OS 10.2 and 10.3 installers. In the OS 10.4 Installer, there's a separate Utilities menu. |
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