Hello all, I’ve been trying to build an InstaDMG Snow Leopard image for our new iMacs and MacBooks but having lots of little glitches…
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Using InstaDMG 1.6b1
Host Machine: 27″ iMac running 10.6.2 with all updates applied.
Target OS: 10.6.1 with 10.6.2 update and all updates
CreateUser – I’ve downloaded the new 1.3, Snow Leopard compatible pkg, gone into the package and edited the USERDATA file, and used the shadowhash to generate my password. When I try to log onto the user after a build and image process, I just get a shaking login window though. I’ve tried doing this about 5 times now. If I just install the package on a running OS that works fine, it’s specifically something that happens in the InstaDMG build.
iWork 09 – Is anyone having any luck with installing this? I’m installing from the original MPKG with the updates on top, but when I try to run any of the applications I get an error stating there are missing components. I’m about to build a custom package for this, but prefer using the Apple originals when possible, so if anyone else has this working I’d love to hear about it.
Strangely iLife 09 is working from the Apple original installers when I build for 10.6, but in my 10.5 workflow the exact same catalog file consisting of the iLife 09 DMG with an installerchoices file, results in non-functional iLife apps, with no icons.
iLife 09 Support 9.0.3 – This doesn’t seem to install no matter what I do.
Bonjour update – Again, it’s in the build train but not installing.
Anyone having better luck with any of the above? Particularly user creation as most of the others I can build custom packages for.
And wouldn’t you know it, the build that finished minutes after posting my message worked ok for the createUser part of the above question. Not sure what I did differently except for a restart of my build station. Go figure, I guess 6th time is the charm.
The iLife support bit is a nasty one, and something I have not been able to figure out how to handle without making changes to the installer. The problem is that it looks at the root volume, and if that does not need the update it skips it. Unfortunately this is hard-coded to look at the root volume and the only way I have to skip that is to use chroot, and the installer does not work with that on 10.6. I suspect that Bonjour is the same problem.