Apple updates and update order

[dano]

well…I knew someone would correct me if I was wrong. There is one issue I have run into regarding partition maps related to external drives. This problem occurred under Tiger (haven’t checked under Leopard yet). Disk Utility wouldn’t change the external hard drive’s partition map scheme. If you had formatted your drive while attached to a PowerPC computer and then tried to reformat while attached to an Intel computer, the partition map would not change from APM to GUID. Which makes the external drive non bootable from an Intel Mac. The workaround for this is to erase the disk using the diskutil tool from Terminal.

[ewhite]

I’ve used this technique for creating a “Universal” boot drive: [url]http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306520[/url]
Which is also the drive I’m using to build InstaDMG ASR images on.

If you troubleshoot across platforms, this can be incredibly useful. The only thing I’ve had problems with is that (if I remember correctly), once you’ve got your drive with an APM, you cannot install OS X on the drive [i]from[/i] and Intel machine. So you can boot an Intel or PPC Mac, but only install from PPC.

P.S. I still can’t get that Security Update to apply without breaking the image! (Even after removing all non-Apple packages… very weird. But I’m going to just wait for 10.5.3 and move on to other parts of this project.)

[ewhite]

After installing iLife 08 & appropriate updates, I get an empty /Applications/iMovie (previous version)/ … anybody else seeing this?

[Patrick Gallagher]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: ewhite[/u][p]After installing iLife 08 & appropriate updates, I get an empty /Applications/iMovie (previous version)/ … anybody else seeing this?[/p][/QUOTE]

Yes, I get that too. The iLife 08 installer saves the older version for people that hate the new version, but does not include it. I will probably just throw a line into the instadmg script to rm that folder.

[Rusty Myers]

I’ve been installing the old iMovie HD because some people still prefer it. I use apple’s own package to do this, it’s a stand alone iMovie HD installer:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html

Although, I have not been getting iMovie 08 installed on my image, is that, like dvd player, because of the machine I’m running on?

[thegooch49]

Hi guys, I think I might have missed something. I have about 10 apple updates. I created a directory structure inside of AppleUpdates (01, 02, 03, etc). These did not run when I executed the script. My log shows the following. Did you have to modify your script at all to make this work? I didn’t see anything on this thread alluding to any edits.

Thanks,
Jeff

Beginning Update Installs from ./AppleUpdates
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/01’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/02’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/03’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/04’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/05’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/06’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/07’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/08’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/09’.

[ewhite]

@thegooch: Are you running the InstaDMG script from inside the Instadmg directory?

[thegooch49]

Yes, I am. The custom updates run fine. My custom installes are all homemade, so I just prefixed the packages with 01, etc. I don’t want do do this with the apple updates, after the warning about receipts having wrong names.

[Theilgaard]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: dano[/u][p]well…I knew someone would correct me if I was wrong. There is one issue I have run into regarding partition maps related to external drives. This problem occurred under Tiger (haven’t checked under Leopard yet). Disk Utility wouldn’t change the external hard drive’s partition map scheme. If you had formatted your drive while attached to a PowerPC computer and then tried to reformat while attached to an Intel computer, the partition map would not change from APM to GUID. Which makes the external drive non bootable from an Intel Mac. The workaround for this is to erase the disk using the diskutil tool from Terminal.[/p][/QUOTE]

Actually this is not right. You can change the partition map, if you select to “partition” your drive instead of “erasing” it. This way Disk Utility will also allow you to change the size of the partitions, if the partition table is GUID (this is probably the main reason not to select Apple Partition Map for the external drive, except that it will not allow you to boot a PPC machine).

[Theilgaard]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: thegooch49[/u][p]Yes, I am. The custom updates run fine. My custom installes are all homemade, so I just prefixed the packages with 01, etc. I don’t want do do this with the apple updates, after the warning about receipts having wrong names.[/p][/QUOTE]

I don’t know if I understand this problem correctly, but it sounds like you are naming you packages with numbers. It is FOLDERS in the AppleUpdates folder you have to create with numbers, and then put you packages into these folders (one in each numbered sub-folder). So it will be the folder number that determines the order of updates, and not the name of the package.

[thegooch49]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Theilgaard[/u][p] I don’t know if I understand this problem correctly, but it sounds like you are naming you packages with numbers. It is FOLDERS in the AppleUpdates folder you have to create with numbers, and then put you packages into these folders (one in each numbered sub-folder). So it will be the folder number that determines the order of updates, and not the name of the package.[/p][/QUOTE]

Hi, thanks for the help. I have created folders inside of AppleUpdates. In the AppleUpdates, I have created named folders (01,02,etc). In those named folders, I have the apple updates that have the standard name. I’m going to try this again to verify that I’m still having this issue.

[Theilgaard]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: thegooch49[/u][p][QUOTE][u]Quote by: Theilgaard[/u][p] I don’t know if I understand this problem correctly, but it sounds like you are naming you packages with numbers. It is FOLDERS in the AppleUpdates folder you have to create with numbers, and then put you packages into these folders (one in each numbered sub-folder). So it will be the folder number that determines the order of updates, and not the name of the package.[/p][/QUOTE]

Hi, thanks for the help. I have created folders inside of AppleUpdates. In the AppleUpdates, I have created named folders (01,02,etc). In those named folders, I have the apple updates that have the standard name. I’m going to try this again to verify that I’m still having this issue. [/p][/QUOTE]

You can read this thread to see my list with 10.5.3:
[url]https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=21023[/url]

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