Instadmg & snow leopard — Only OS is installing

[bschollnick]

Folks,

I’m having some issues here with Snow Leopard, the Base OS is installing fine… But any other catalogues are failing… The OS component is being installed, but the other software is dying during install.

instadmg.bash: line 786: 25105 Bad System Call /usr/sbin/chroot . /usr/sbin/install -verbose -dumplog -pkg “$CHROOT_TARGET/$TARGET_FILE_NAME” -target /

or

installer: Error Trying to locate volume at /

Any suggestions?

And can Snow Leopard images be built on a system running 10.5? What’s the rules for building instaDmg images?

[blake]

I was building snow leopard images with instadmg 1.4b4 for a while. However I have moved over to using apple’s SIU. With apple providing a supported tool now I don’t expect InstaDMG is going to be modified to work with snow leopard.

blake

[ggeilman]

I am experiencing the same exact problem. No custom pkg’s are installing according to the debug log.

[b] installer: Error Trying to locate volume at /[/b]

Build machine is a 2 x 2.66 Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon MacPro
Base Image is 10.6 (10A432)

Thoughts anyone?

Thx,
Greg

[larkost]

As I have mentioned in other threads, 1.5 does not really work well on 10.6 at this point. However, it seems that it might work if you use the ‘-r’ option (disable chroot). The main problem is that Apple has changed the way the /usr/sbin/installer works enough that it breaks in chroot. so disabling the chroot jails will solve that, but then re-open all of the problems that the chroot jails solved in the first place. I have bugs in with Apple on this, and need to re-test a lot of things now that they have settled down for a little while.

And I have been watching the development of what Apple is calling the “NetRestore” track of SIU (System Image Utility). I talked my way onto the MacOS X Server 10.6 seeding group so I could watch it, but have been disappointed the whole way through. I still yet have to build a successful image with it with only minimal additions (iLife ’09 and MS Office). I had been hoping that SIU could replace InstaDMG since I heard about it last January, but have yet to think that this is going to happen.

I hope to go back and start slowly hacking on InstaDMG again in the next few weeks.

[walt]

I just started playing around with SIU in 10.6. One thing I found, which some may have already looked at, is the automator scripts Apple uses to create the images, kind of interesting.

/Applications/Server/System Image Utility.app/Contents/Library/Automator/Create Image.action/Contents/Resources/

In theory couldn’t InstaDMG be integrated into SIU as an automator action(s)?

It sounds like Apple should hire you to develop it larkost :D.

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