Empty ASR_Output image

[infinitysupport]

I’m having some trouble, obviously.

I’m using a Leopard retail disk for my base, the createuser.pkg and clearReg,pkg packages posted by users, a custom one to install the ARD client, and the 10.5.2 combo update.

Everything looks like it’s executing properly:
[quote]created: /Volumes/Data/Groups/InfoTech/Private/Imaging/InstaDMG_Resources/Instadmg/DMG_Scratch/InstaDMG.08-04-25.sparseimage
Started erase on disk disk2
Creating partition map
Formatting disk2s2 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name InstaDMG
[ + 0%..10%..20%..30%..40%..50%..60%..70%..80%..90%..100% ]
Finished erase on disk disk2
Finished partitioning on disk disk2
Checksumming whole disk (Apple_HFS : 0)…
…………………………………………………………………….
whole disk (Apple_HFS : 0): verified CRC32 $1D050AD1
verified CRC32 $8EC7987D
/dev/disk4 /Volumes/LeopardInstall
Volume on disk2s2 renamed to OS-Build-08-04-25
Disk /dev/disk2 ejected
asr: successfully scanned image “/Volumes/Data/Groups/InfoTech/Private/Imaging/InstaDMG_Resources/Instadmg/ASR_Output/08-04-25.dmg”[/quote]

and the output log looks like everything went OK:
[quote]08-04-25
Beginning Installation from /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD
08-04-25
Beginning Update Installs from ./AppleUpdates
Installed 1
08-04-25
Beginning Update Installs from ./CustomPKG
Installed 1
08-04-25
Beginning Installation from /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD
08-04-25
Beginning Update Installs from ./AppleUpdates
Installed 1
08-04-25
Beginning Update Installs from ./CustomPKG
Installed 1
Installed 2
Installed 3[/quote]

But what I get in the ASR_Output folder is a 16KB empty DMG.

Any ideas?

[Patrick Fergus]

How long is it taking to run the whole InstaDMG script? It almost sounds like the OS install is failing and thus the rest of the installs will fail.

Are you cd’ing into the same directory as the script and then executing it from there (e.g. ./instadmg.bash)?

Are you running the script as root?

– Patrick

[knowmad]

what os is your build box running? (ie the machine running the script, not the os that the script is building)
I ran into a similar issue the first time I tried to run instadmg as I was using a tiger box to build a leopard image.
the OS would not install but the script ran all the way through, result was that I had a tiny small image with no useful data.

[infinitysupport]

@Patrick
Yes, I am running the script as root and I am sure I’m running the right instadmg.bash (even though there are two in the download), otherwise I just get a couple of pages of errors in Terminal.

I don’t know how long that took because I started it and then left. Next time I’ll find out.

@knowmad
InstaDMG is running on 10.5.2 Server.

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