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Create a customized 10.3 'Rescue CD/DVD'
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Nov 19, '06 03:10:39PM

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.

I took yet another look at this hint, and for a moment I thought I had the confusion figured out. I missed the hint author's note, "I believe this procedure should work also with a Panther Install CD". Since OS 10.4 wasn't released at the time, he can only have been referring to OS 10.2, though he doesn't say. So I took a look at an OS 10.2 installer CD, and found it doesn't contain an InstallerMenuAdditions.plist file. So, I made a disc image of my 10.2 Installer disc, copied Diskwarrior into its Applications/Utilities folder, burned it, then started up from that disc. Diskwarrior didn't appear under the Installer menu.

Conclusion: it's a mystery how this hint author did what he says. I notice nobody commenting here says they tried this hint with an OS 10.2 Installer CD except me--daybrother comments only that he was able to copy his Panther Installer CD, but says nothing about trying to add utilities to it, and merch tried a 10.3 Installer disc, with the added steps of modifying the InstallerMenuAdditions.plist file, and had limited success--some apps wouldn't work--but from that I imply some did work for him. So unless the hint author has some bizarre variation on the OS 10.2 installer, his success will remain a mystery.



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