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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Not to hijack this, but the last poster is correct about using Disk Utility. That's how I setup my disk. I did rename mine to Tiger and haven't had a problem yet. What I'm really curious about is whether someone has come up with a definitive guide to slipstreaming installs into the disc. I've found various hints, but so far I haven't had much luck with Tiger and it's still way too tedious and I just don't know enough to dig into all the .plists. If someone had a step by step guide, please point it out.
Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Well, this isn't exactly slipstreaming, but if you collect up all the installers, you can always use PackageMaker to make an metapackage out of them.
Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
I don't know what slipstreaming is, but if you check out the manpage for asr.
Adding software update packages to a hard-drive based OS X installer
Jeff:
I've been working this most of the day and found a working solution for some of the software updates that follow an installation. My solution involves setting up the hard drive based OS X (Tiger) installer (described in this thread) with a few minor modifications. Here are the steps I used:
CHECKING & CHANGING PERMISSIONS: If you failed to turn off the "Ignore ownership on this volume" (step 1), like I did, you'll need to change the file permissions on your hard drive based installer partition. If you DID do step one before any other steps, you might want to check the permissions anyway.
ABOUT MY STARTING POINT: I started with a Mac OS X 10.4.3 Installer DVD image, so I don't have a lot of additional software updates to apply and that's why my examples only show four added packages to my installation. Your mileage my vary. A NOTE ABOUT JAVA UPDATES: I tried to include the Java131and142Release2.pkg & J2SE50Release3.pkg packages in my installation, but the installation would fail, so I removed them. ---
Adding software update packages to a hard-drive based OS X installer
When I add Packages to the Installer then try to open the osinstall.mpkg
Adding software update packages to a hard-drive based OS X installer
While this is an elegant solution, besides the awesome complexity of it, I see one serious problem. Apple releases OS related updates of one kind or another every week or so; an install disk image with the update packages included would quickly be out of date and you would have to make a new one regularly to maintain the utility of the process. Unless you do OS installs all day long, it's hard to see the advantage of going to so much trouble to expedite the process. |
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