InstaDMG skips the installation of Microsoft 2008.

[Brigandy]

Hi Guys,

I am installing Microsoft Office 2008 and receiving the following error:

Working on folder 2 Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac (14:32:57)
Copying folder /Volumes/Mac/instadmg/InstallerFiles/InstaUp2DatePackages/Office Installer.mpkg into the target at /private/tmp/mount_point.1otqIy/private/tmp/package.F5LDm1
Installing Office Installer.mpkg inside a chroot jail
PFPkg: No file found at path: /private/tmp/package.F5LDm1/Office Installer.mpkg
PFPackage::packageWithURL – can’t instantiate package: /private/tmp/package.F5LDm1/Office Installer.mpkg
Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘/private/tmp/package.F5LDm1/Office Installer.mpkg’.
Removing the copied folder: /private/tmp/mount_point.1otqIy/private/tmp/package.F5LDm1
Folder 2 Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac done (14:34:23)

I have mounted the Microsoft Office 2008 ISO and dragged “Office Installer.mpkg” to the “InstaUp2DatePackages” directory.

This is the original Microsoft Office 2008 (with no Service Packs included). This is a volume license version of Microsoft Office 2008 (from Microsoft’s MSDN site).

What usually causes this error? I just want to get Microsoft Office 2008 installed. I’ll deal with the “Microsoft Office 2008 Service Packs and Updates” later.

NOTE: MANY OTHER PACKAGES INSTALL FROM THE “InstaUp2DatePackages” DIRECTORY. I’M JUST HAVING PROBLEMS INSTALLING MICROSOFT OFFICE 2008. I AM RUNNING INSTADMG FROM A MAC OS X 10.5.8 MACHINE AND AM TRYING TO CREATE A 10.5.8 IMAGE.

[dead2sin]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Brigandy[/u][p]Hi Guys,

I am installing Microsoft Office 2008 and receiving the following error:

Working on folder 2 Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac (14:32:57)
Copying folder /Volumes/Mac/instadmg/InstallerFiles/InstaUp2DatePackages/Office Installer.mpkg into the target at /private/tmp/mount_point.1otqIy/private/tmp/package.F5LDm1
Installing Office Installer.mpkg inside a chroot jail
PFPkg: No file found at path: /private/tmp/package.F5LDm1/Office Installer.mpkg
PFPackage::packageWithURL – can’t instantiate package: /private/tmp/package.F5LDm1/Office Installer.mpkg
Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘/private/tmp/package.F5LDm1/Office Installer.mpkg’.
Removing the copied folder: /private/tmp/mount_point.1otqIy/private/tmp/package.F5LDm1
Folder 2 Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac done (14:34:23)

I have mounted the Microsoft Office 2008 ISO and dragged “Office Installer.mpkg” to the “InstaUp2DatePackages” directory.

This is the original Microsoft Office 2008 (with no Service Packs included). This is a volume license version of Microsoft Office 2008 (from Microsoft’s MSDN site).

What usually causes this error? I just want to get Microsoft Office 2008 installed. I’ll deal with the “Microsoft Office 2008 Service Packs and Updates” later.

NOTE: MANY OTHER PACKAGES INSTALL FROM THE “InstaUp2DatePackages” DIRECTORY. I’M JUST HAVING PROBLEMS INSTALLING MICROSOFT OFFICE 2008. I AM RUNNING INSTADMG FROM A MAC OS X 10.5.8 MACHINE AND AM TRYING TO CREATE A 10.5.8 IMAGE.[/p][/QUOTE]

I would highly suggest getting the SP2 media from MSDN. It seems to work a lot better with InstaDMG for me.

Nate

[Allister Banks]

Hey Brigandy,

Three other things(that may just be voodoo from attempts at tweaking pkgs to play nicer with instaUp2Date) are:
-I’d try removing the space in the filename
-I’d bundle the mpkg back up in a DMG(don’t use the ISO) with DiskUtility or hdiutil and move it to the caches folder
-when you bundle it back up, you may want to make a folder for the mpkg and include an installerChoices.xml file for it, especially if you don’t want out of date apps like Messenger or language translations.

I’ve had peculiarities with custom pkgs and instaup2date in 10.5.8, but not(instadmg-friendly elsewhere) commercial software.

Thank you for letting us know this is actually a volume license, and you are building 10.5.8 on 10.5.8, it’s very helpful when you’re asking for assistance to have that clarification. In your original post, would you mind modifying the all-caps back to regular, please? We’re pretty observant lately. Also, is this a rather recent version of instaDMG(339, as you made mention to previously)?

Let us know how it goes, please!

Allister

[Brigandy]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Allister[/u][p]Hey Brigandy,

Three other things(that may just be voodoo from attempts at tweaking pkgs to play nicer with instaUp2Date) are:
-I’d try removing the space in the filename
-I’d bundle the mpkg back up in a DMG(don’t use the ISO) with DiskUtility or hdiutil and move it to the caches folder
-when you bundle it back up, you may want to make a folder for the mpkg and include an installerChoices.xml file for it, especially if you don’t want out of date apps like Messenger or language translations.

I’ve had peculiarities with custom pkgs and instaup2date in 10.5.8, but not(instadmg-friendly elsewhere) commercial software.

Thank you for letting us know this is actually a volume license, and you are building 10.5.8 on 10.5.8, it’s very helpful when you’re asking for assistance to have that clarification. In your original post, would you mind modifying the all-caps back to regular, please? We’re pretty observant lately. Also, is this a rather recent version of instaDMG(339, as you made mention to previously)?

Let us know how it goes, please!

Allister
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Allister,

Can you give me the steps (via CLI or Disk Utility) on how to bundle the mpkg to a DMG file? Thanks.

[Allister Banks]

Hey Brigandy,

Via a message to the MacEnterprise mailing list back in May of this year, Mr. Greg Neagle posted this one-liner:
/usr/bin/hdiutil create -srcfolder /path/to/pkg /path/to/whereyouwanttoputthe.dmg
A pkg is essentially a folder, so in DiskUtility it’s File->New->DiskImageFromFolder… and then you can navigate straight to the package/mpkg. Or, as I was suggesting, create a new folder in Finder, put the mpkg and an installerChoices.xml file for Office(you’d make it in the same method as for the BaseOS), and point DiskUtility to that new folder.

Allister

[Brigandy]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Allister[/u][p]Hey Brigandy,

Via a message to the MacEnterprise mailing list back in May of this year, Mr. Greg Neagle posted this one-liner:
/usr/bin/hdiutil create -srcfolder /path/to/pkg /path/to/whereyouwanttoputthe.dmg
A pkg is essentially a folder, so in DiskUtility it’s File->New->DiskImageFromFolder… and then you can navigate straight to the package/mpkg. Or, as I was suggesting, create a new folder in Finder, put the mpkg and an installerChoices.xml file for Office(you’d make it in the same method as for the BaseOS), and point DiskUtility to that new folder.

Allister[/p][/QUOTE]

Allister,

Placing the “Office Install.mpkg” into a dmg file resolved this issue. Thanks a bunch!

Now why does the “Office Install.mpkg” have to be placed into a dmg?

The InstaUp2Date instructions say that you can place a pkg, mpkg or a dmg in the “InstaUp2DatePackages” directory, but it looks like this is not true, since a Microsoft Office 2008 mpkg file will not work. What’s the deal?

[Allister Banks]

Hey Brigandy,

It would of course be more acceptable if the behavior of pkgs with InstaUp2Date were more consistent, and features were more “warranty-able”/documentation more reliable, but we’re in the midst of big plumbing changes and growing pains as development abandons bash and pushes towards python. As that work continues(with no commercial backing), 10.5 and 10.6 behavior will differ, and your patience and understanding of these short-term discrepancies is greatly appreciated. This forum, and the issue/bug tracker on the googlecode project hosting page, are great ways to express how you would improve the current code or documentation so others would benefit from any enhancements you could suggest.

By the way, it seems this forum is causing you to double-post, could you delete the second instance if you notice it happening again? Thanks,

Allister

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