Installing OS X 10.6.7 in German using InstaDMG

[Huhu]

Hi There!

First of all i ave to say that i’m from Germany, so pleasy forgive me my bad english;) (i’ll try to give my best^^)

I’m very interested in building an image of OS X 10.6.7 with iLife, Office, Firefox an more additional software preinstalled (i have to install about 2 or 3 Mac’s every week, so it would be nice to use InstaDMG;))

I’ve succeed in Building a 10.6.7 Image, but it didnt installed the additional software and it was in english.

For the additional software problem:

I’ve build a pkg of Firefox using apple Package Maker and put it into: “Installer Files /CustomPKG/firefox.pkg”

do i have to create child folders, one per pkg? for example:

“/Installer Files/CustomPKG/01/firefox.pkg” ?

For the language problem:

I assume that i have to create a “10.6_InstallerChoices.xml”-file and put it into “/InstallerFiles/BaseOS”, right?
And every time i list a choice identifier in a installerchoices files it is the same as i would click in the GUI, right?

But when i want to install my OS X in german, which is the right choicesidentifier to do that?

When I would list: choiceIdentifier
LanguageTranslations

it would “click” once, and that would disable all languages except english, but i would like to preinstall english, french, german, Italian

So

I hope my guestions were understandable and that you can help me;)

Bye

[p0ddie]

Hi,

I’ll answer in English for the sake of this being an English forum 🙂

The easiest way for this to work is for you to create an additional package with the following files (taken from a German system):

com.apple.HIToolbox
com.apple.loginwindow
.GlobalPreferences

You can find them in /Library/Preferences.

Additionally, you need to add

#usr/bin/env bash
languagesetup -langspec “German”
exit 0

as a postinstall script.

Should work (works in my images).

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