What a pain this is. I figured that 10.6.7 would be a universal update that included the early 2011 MBPs. This is rather frustrating. 👿

Just to make sure I’m getting this right, I can add the general 10.6.7 combo update to my image, then add the 10.6.7 2011-MBP update into the image as well and this image would work on any Mac supporting Snow Leopard?

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: bw38[/u][p]Just to make sure I’m getting this right, I can add the general 10.6.7 combo update to my image, then add the 10.6.7 2011-MBP update into the image as well and this image would work on any Mac supporting Snow Leopard?[/p][/QUOTE]

I doubt it — if were that simple, Apple wouldn’t have released a separate update for the new MacBook Pros.

You’ll need two base images — one for Early 2011 MacBook Pros, and one for everything else. The one for Early 2011 MacBook Pros should probably be built from a Early 2011 MacBook Pro + the 10.6.7 update for the Early 2011 MBPs. The other one can be built from a retail release of Snow Leopard and then brought to either 10.6.6 or 10.6.7 via Combo Update.

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: cygnus2112[/u][p]But therein lies the facility of instadmg to minimize the overhead of maintaining different images. Just build your instaUp2Date catalog off the mbp grey disc instead of the retail generic build, and you have an identical image save for the driver differences between the retail and hardware-specific builds.[/p][/QUOTE]

Hi,

I just tried building an image using a 10.6.6 BaseImage from a 2011 MacBook Pro 15″. I updated instaDMG to the newest version from the svn, updated my catalogs with the 10.6.7 2011 specific update and ran InstaDMG. Unfortunately I got this error:

[code]Finding the Installer disc for setup
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./instaUp2Date.py”, line 716, in
main()
File “./instaUp2Date.py”, line 678, in main
foundInstallerDiscs = findInstallerDisc.findInstallerDisc(allowedBuilds=thisController.installerDiscBuilds)
File “/Volumes/Lacie/instadmg/AddOns/InstaUp2Date/Resources/findInstallerDisc.py”, line 201, in findInstallerDisc
raise commonExceptions.FileNotFoundException(‘Unable to find OS Installer disc in any provided folder: %s%s’ % (str(searchItems), folderString))
Resources.commonExceptions.FileNotFoundException: Unable to find OS Installer disc in any provided folder: [‘/Volumes/Lacie/instadmg/InstallerFiles/InstallerDiscs’, ‘/Volumes/Lacie/instadmg/InstallerFiles/BaseOS’] ([‘.DS_Store’, ‘.svn’, ‘Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg’], [‘.DS_Store’, ‘InstallerChoices.xml’, ‘Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg’])
[/code]

Can’t quite wrap my head around what’s missing :-/ Any ideas?

Thanks for your answer. I actually did this (and had the same build of 10.6.6). But it just doesn’t find it.I also tried downgrading findInstallerDisc.py to an older version with no luck. It seems though to be a known problem:
[url]http://code.google.com/p/instadmg/issues/detail?id=79[/url]

I tried ejecting all disks (which is described on the page above), and this actually worked when running InstaDMG by itself! But instaUp2Date still gives me the same error, so the installation can’t be setup properly.

Any ideas?

Yes, when I first started using instaUp2Date I would get that error frequently. I don’t recall there being a definitive conclusion as to why it happens for people, though I’ve heard of reboots fixing it. It could also be that there are still processes running from a previous build if it was ever aborted — if I ever abort a previous run, I ctrl-C a few times, and check that the various disk image-related processes and python are no longer running.

All credit(or blame) for previous catalog to @chilcote, I tested it on a 15″ today and its up to date. Reference for build number: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1159