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10.3: Create a system install DVD
Authored by: gabester on Feb 02, '05 03:21:02PM

This hint really needs to have an updated version released. I've spent all morning trying to get this to work.

I started out using Disk Utility to make a standard sized DVD read/write image and used the restore function to put Mac OS X Install Disk 1 onto it. I then copied the other disks and edited the .plist file. I burned a DVD which seems bootable but gives a kernel panic almost immediately so I don't think it actually is bootable.

My second attempt used Disk Utility, selected "Session 1" of the original install CD, and made a new read/write image from that. However, I can't expand the partition size past 768 megs.

Third attempt, with Disk Utility using restore to write onto a sparse image, failed with an error -20 about 3/4th of the way through.

I'd intended to do my own write-up for 10.3.5 and including how to edit the plist to add 10.3.x updates and later versions of iTunes (possibly even iLife) but if I can't get the basic hint to work, what's the point?



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