[QUOTE][u]Quote by: dead2sin[/u][p]Also, just curious…are you running the installer command using a 10.6 machine, or is it running another version of OS X?[/p][/QUOTE]
10.6.3 machine

I’ve need seen that not work. Did you try cutting and pasting this into terminal and pressing enter?

[code]sudo installer -showChoicesXML -pkg /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg[/code]

Every machine I’ve tried it on (10.6 client) it has worked as well as with retail and OEM discs. I’m not sure what else to tell you. If the machine you are running it on is 10.6.x and you cut and pasted the command above into your terminal and it still gave that error, then the only possibilities I can think of are that either #1 the Install Disc image is bad or #2 something is wrong with your 10.6 box.

Thanks for your patience guys, we should try to make this easier at some point.
I can’t say why it worked on the first try for me without the less-than-helpful error message, all I can say is make sure your path is right; I drag-dropped the disc icon from the top of the windows into terminal to figure out which one I wanted(in the example below, two other installers were mounted so this got the suffix ‘2’. YMMV:
[code]sudo installer -showChoicesXML -pkg /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD\ 2/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg[/code]
and it spit out the options, this disc is build 10C2234.

Here’s the end result, parsed to only include the ones you should interact with:

choiceIdentifier
Host_PrinterDrivers
—
choiceIdentifier
Popular_PrinterDrivers
—
choiceIdentifier
All_PrinterDrivers
—
choiceIdentifier
PrinterDriversGroup
—
choiceIdentifier
AdditionalFonts
—
choiceIdentifier
Japanese
—
choiceIdentifier
German
—
choiceIdentifier
French
—
choiceIdentifier
Spanish
—
choiceIdentifier
Italian
—
choiceIdentifier
Dutch
—
choiceIdentifier
Danish
—
choiceIdentifier
Finnish
—
choiceIdentifier
Korean
—
choiceIdentifier
Norwegian
—
choiceIdentifier
Russian
—
choiceIdentifier
Swedish
—
choiceIdentifier
BrazilianPortuguese
—
choiceIdentifier
SimplifiedChinese
—
choiceIdentifier
TraditionalChinese
—
choiceIdentifier
Portuguese
—
choiceIdentifier
Polish
—
choiceIdentifier
LanguageTranslations
—
choiceIdentifier
X11
—
choiceIdentifier
Rosetta
—
choiceIdentifier
QuickTimePlayer7

FYI, I checked it with the -target flag pointing at an empty volume as well, same difference.

We were all instarookie’s once… smileyface.

1. importdisk just… imports the disk. The first time you run instadmg.bash(or hand off the catalog file of your choice to instadmg via instaUp2Date –process) it caches the base install after utilizing the installerChoices.xml file it finds in the InstallerFiles/BaseOS folder(the dmg you made with importdisk will be there as well if all went right.)

2. You need to make the choices you want, as if you’re checking boxes in the gui, especially if this is snow leopard since /Documentation/InstallerChoices.xml hasn’t been updated since 10.5 AFAIK. We’ll get that fixed soon, good idea.
You only need the xml, not the .txt file. That just helps you know the syntax of your choices, since you’d want to do it for other mpkgs like iLife09′, Office2008 and others. Learn to fish, as they say.

If you want the answer, though, it’s
[code]

Popular_PrinterDrivers
LanguageTranslations
AdditionalFonts
Rosetta

[/code]
It’s the same choices I use.
FYI, the latest svn version has some outstanding bugs you may come across, so the downloadable zip here is the safest way to go as of now(May 21st). That zip is located here: code.google.com/p/instadmg/downloads/list

Let me know where I’m not being clear, and good luck!

Allister

Trying to get a Choicesinstaller.xml file to do what I want.
I need:
All Print drivers
NO additional fonts
Spanish Translation and no others
Rosetta
X11
QT7

I have:

[code]

All_PrinterDrivers
AdditionalFonts
AdditionalTranslations
choiceIdentifier
Spainsh
Rosetta
X11
QuickTimePlayer7

[/code]

Am I on the right track, or barking up the wrong tree.

—Update—-

This particular file doesn’t appear to work, it generates a <1GB install image. I am not doing anything too intrecate yet with InstaDMG, I have only the DMG from the install disk and the 10.6.3 updater in the workflow and then this InstallerChoices.xml file.

Not sure what I am doing wrong.

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: vogtstev[/u][p]Does anyone know how to get just the specific vendor print drivers. I’m assuming this is not an option anymore. I would basically like to remove Epson and Canon drivers. Any ideas?

Thanks![/p][/QUOTE]

Not sure how to go about it anymore, but specific maker drivers are no longer a choice identifier.

Hey Steve,
Each time the choice identifier is read out of the xml file it’s essentially clicking a checkbox. In my post above, “Popular_PrinterDrivers”, which translates to “Nearby and Popular Printers” which is selected by default, is deselected by this key being present in the choices file – therefore no printer drivers are chosen for install(I think it includes some gutenprint/cups by default though.) If anybody thinks I’m incorrect please let me know, but I think that’s what you’re asking and would make sense given what you observed in your previous attempt. Page five of the InstaDMG Guide 1-6.pdf that you can download from instadmg.googlecode.com has a higher-res version that I just checked to make sure.

Allister