Revision 97

[pteeter]

Not sure whether I need to post here or at the Google group. I’ll try this first.

Checked out the 97 revision earlier today in hopes of building some images this weekend. Having some problems.

Tiger – PPC: script fails around Base image caching phase, complains about xattrs
Tiger – X86: looks to be the same problem

I have logs and std-out from each platform. Tried to run the script twice, same result each time. Both ‘build bed’ machines are 10.4.11 – PPC = MirrorDoorG4, X86 = MacMini Core 2 Duo .

Leo – PPC: appears to be working but takes forever to mount / acknowledge that OS install image is mounted
Leo – X86: appears to be working, we’ll see how it finishes

I’m using the InstaUp2Date AddOn also, but larkost’s AddOn doesn’t appear to be the problem here.

Anyone want to see logs?
Want me to post over at the Google group?

[larkost]

pteeter also posted on the dev list, and I answered him there. To sum up that response:

The xattrs problem is a cosmetic one on 10.4: xattrs does not exist so it complains, but the error message does not cause any other problems. I have checked in code to check for the existence (actually the excutablility) of xattrs before calling it.

And the long time on mount is probably hdiutil calling fsck on the target drive. On my machine this takes about 4-6 minutes. Since it is either that or about 50 minutes to an hour of install I thought it was a good trade when testing the code. I have a couple of ideas about how to get around this 6 minute pause, but don’t have time to do the cycles needed to test this for the next month (have to get my images out).

If anyone wants to pick up the challenge of working on that… I will be happy to look at it, and maybe even give it a whirl. And my ideas are up on the instadmg-dev@google mailing list.

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