Public Beta: InstaDMG

After a long delay I'm finally getting around to posting the InstaDMG scripts. Life outside of AFP548.com has been very, very busy these days and I simply haven't had the time to clean the script up as much as I would like. Because of that fact we are going to do this a bit differently than I had planned.

Welcome to the InstaDMG public beta.

Read on for more...

InstaDMG is being released today as a public beta and in two different forms.

The first is my original script. You can think of this as the core form of InstaDMG. This is the exact same code that I have demoed for customers and now you can have it as well.

The second script is a modified version submitted by reader Richard Leonard. It has a lot of additions that do things like make it work on PPC hardware. (Many thanks to Richard for his alpha testing!)

Your task, gentle readers, is to test the snot out of these scripts. Pick and choose pieces that you want, modify to suit your needs, and submit the code back to the project.

To facilitate all of this I have created a new forum for InstaDMG here. Its open for discussion and code submissions. I'll be moderating the forum and pulling the juiciest bits of code back into the larger project. I fully expect the discussion to be hot and heavy at first as we hash out how it all works.

As you test and play remember the key idea of the InstaDMG philosophy.

Everything is in a pkg.

To help you to this end I've included a silly little startup item that is an example of how you can create a user on first boot.

You can use this link to download InstaDMG. I look forward to seeing everyone in the forums!