I work for a school district that has about 35,000+ PPC Macs that we want to keep 10.4 on. I am trying to create a 10.4 image using InstaDMG and have had nothing but problems. We do have a few thousand Intel Macs that we have created a 10.5 image for (which worked perfectly the first run), but we still need a solution for the 10.4 machines.
I tried creating a 10.4 image the same way I did the 10.5 image…just changing the install dvd from Leopard to Tiger. When I ran the instadmg bash script, everything looked good and an image was in the outputfiles folder. I put that image on a workstation and everything was looking good…except when I tried to log in, our user that was supposed to be created with the creatuser.pkg did not work (which did work on the 10.5 image).
After reading a few (2 days worth), I realized that the OS of the system should be the same as the OS of the image you are trying to create. So, I wiped out our imaging box and did a clean 10.4 install. Now, I have the InstaDMG 1.4b4 folder on the desktop along with the Retail (10.4.6) Tiger install DVD dmg file in the BaseOS folder. I have the 10.4.11 combo update and the ClearReg and CreateUser packages in their folders and ready to roll.
I run sudo ./instadmg.bash from the root of the folder and watch as the process goes through. Everything looks good for the first part of the process where it creates the temp folders/mounts and installs the base os and combo update. Then when it tries to unmount the disk, we get 2 failures…
The process continues to install the ClearReg and CreateUser. After the packages get installed and it goes to ASR scan the image, the scan fails with “no such file or directory”, then it goes to unmount the drive and it fails.
I picked apart the instadmg.bash and put a few stops in it. It appears to be the hdiutil -convert command that is not working. I put a pause right after that command (before the cleanup) and ran the command manually. The error I get is ‘Bus Error’ and nothing happens. I checked the /tmp folder and the sparse image is in there…so I am not sure what the problem is and why we are getting a bus error.
If anyone has any ideas, please let us know.
Thank you for your time.
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