Macbook Alu system disk won’t work with InstaDMG.

[Giobbi]

Hi all.

I’m trying to do a special workflow for the news Macbooks but get stuck right away. I did a dmg of Disc 1 via Disk Utility, dropped it in the baseOS folder, did a copy of my base updates with some slight changes. Fired upp instadmg (b4) and instantly i get this error:

[i]08:02:21 ######InstaDMG build initiated######
08:02:21 ######Mounting Mac OS X installer image######
Mounting a support disk from ./InstallerFiles/BaseOS/./InstallerFiles/BaseOS/mabook_alu.dmg
ERROR: the main install disk was not sucessfully mounted![/i]

I made a fresh new dmg of Disc 1 just to make sure that its not the dmg. The dmg mounts on my desktop just before i get this error.

Any ideas?

Many thanks.

p

[Patrick Fergus]

See lines 393 and 394 inside the InstaDMG 1.4b4 script:[code]if [ “$IMAGE_FILE” == “$INSTALLER_FOLDER/Mac OS X Install Disc 1.dmg” ]\
|| [ “$IMAGE_FILE” == “$INSTALLER_FOLDER/Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg” ]; then
# we have a primary disk image[/code]It’s your dmg name. Try “Mac OS X Install Disc 1.dmg” or “Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg” instead of “mabook_alu.dmg”. Since it doesn’t match the names InstaDMG is looking for, it thinks your disk image is a supporting disk (such as disk 2, 3, XCode, etc), as mentioned in lines 507-511.

If you want to keep your AlMacBook (need a better name….) install images separate from your standard retail 10.5 image, use the -b flag to redirect the location of the Installer folder. For example:[code]/Users/pfergus/Downloads/InstaDMG_1.4b4/instadmg.bash -b /path/to/AlMacBook_Installer_Image/[/code]and drop your AlMacBook installer DVD in [i]that[/i] folder.

– Patrick

[Giobbi]

Ah, thx for the tip Patric, worked like a charm.

Now i know why my master-image of MacOSX 10.5 didn’t work, since it ended with cdr.

p

[Giobbi]

Ah, thx for the tip Patric, worked like a charm.

Now i know why my master-image of MacOSX 10.5 didn’t work, since it ended with cdr.

p

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