[LGW]

OK, the older MacMini seems to boot fine from that Image. It still wants to register and stuff, but it boots into Lion. No “no parking”.

That’s crazy. Any idea where to get an installer DMG that would fit the [b]new[/b] MacMinis?

[LGW]

OK, first: big thanks to Allister for looking over the whole process with me 😀

Current status: InstaDMG completes fine, but the OS does not boot (“no parking here” sign).

Information: I’m using new LATEST off the shelf MacMini (Core i5/4GB DDR, Intel only Graphics).

After re-imaging the partition with asr again, I figured that it might be interesting to see if Command-v prints any verbose information, and yes it does:

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This version of MacOS X is not supported on this platform!
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Reason: Mac-4BC7SD6SAD45599E

Wow. So MacOS Lion from the installer (downloaded on SL) is not supporting current MacMinis running Lion?

As I need to image exactly those… yikes? 😈

I’ll now test the same image on an older MacMini…

[LGW]

Well, there seems to be a ton of custom-created packages, and I’ll have to go through one by one anyway.

My main goal will be getting a running Lion system plus creating a local user, if that works the rest will just be work to do. If necessary, some packages could even be handled by the post-install process, as there are already some that are applied after the first boot of the system due to issues I don’t fully understand yet. 🙄

I’ll have a look at the documentation file and if I can’t wrap my head around it, I’ll hop on IRC.

Thanks!

[LGW]

Hey guys,

I’m new in a company and have been thrown in to “fix up InstaDMG for Lion 8O”, and there’s close to no documentation how the old guy really “did set it up”, plus I’m not even close to being an expert on InstaDMG (yet).

I figured out from this thread that I need to do some magic with the instadmg.bash program, and I checked the PDF documentation, but I must confess I’m completely stuck now.

It would be VERY helpful if someone of you guys could supply me/this thread with just a “complete” list of shell commands on how to get from the Lion DMG (already in place) to a DMG i.e. useable with DeployStudio or something alike.

I have complete prepared scripts to build Leopard and Snow Leopard systems from my “predecessor” (I did not replace him, he quit ;)), but they all use instaUp2Date.py.

Thanks in advance!

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