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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: larkost[/u] [i]While this sort of thing is why I put in the chroot jail in the first place, I do consider this sort of thing bad scripting on the package maker’s part. But the solution is really easy: you just have to reference the “target” drive that the installer is feeding you as the “$3” (third) argument to your script.[/i][/QUOTE]
Ah, but I’m a bad bash-scripting newbie, and [lightbulb goes on] didn’t catch the connection of using special variables in the postflight script!

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: larkost[/u] [i]And you are also being a bit creative with the SetFile command, and there is a better way: include SetFile in the resources of your package, then reference it using the “$2” argument provided to your script.[/i][/QUOTE]
I [i]was[/i] including it as a package resource; the postflight script wasn’t finding the executable until…

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: larkost[/u] [i]So here is your modified script (assuming that you put SetFile in resources):
#!/bin/sh
“$2/Contents/Resources/SetFile” -a V “$3/Library/Scripts/script.sh”
Note that I am quoting both paths in case they have spaces in them. This is also off-the-cuff and untested, so you might need to do some troubleshooting.[/i][/QUOTE]
[b]…and it worked like a charm.[/b]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: larkost[/u] [i]Overall I would say that you probably should not be trying to hide this. Smart users are going to find it anyways, and not-so-smart users are probably not going to be looking in /Library/Scripts in the first place. If you are hiding things in this script, then there is probably a better way.[/i][/QUOTE]
Totally right — I was appeasing others. Intended users of this image will not be allowed access to the system folder anyway.

Thanks!

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Why not use your firewire drive to boot from? Partition it if needed, install 10.5.2 using your install disc, d/l the 10.5.8 combo update and apply, then boot? All Intel Macs can boot from FireWire and most USB hard drives, as well as USB flash.

Why do you need to use InstaDMG again? Why are you copying the image to the f/w drive only to boot in target mode? Not sure I’m following what your doing here…

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