[hetjan]

I’m having the same experience. If I understand the way Mac OS X works this method will work for each individual user but the login window will still be using the US keyboard…

[hetjan]

Is there no way to create the homedir w/o logging in? Something like WGMs Create Home Now button …

[hetjan]

I should have known…

The user is created OK, but there is no homedir until after first login.

[hetjan]

I’m using r211 from svn.

I’ve tried creating a DMG to hold the pkg, which worked around the chroot issues I had with other packages, but I have had no luck. I’ve tried installing it via ARD and installing it locally with no luck.

When I install locally I get this in the system log:
Aug 26 17:14:10 tests-macbook com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.installdb.system): Throttling respawn: Will start in 1 seconds

I don’t know what to make of it. Any ideas?

[hetjan]

I had this same issue and I fixed it by creating a sparse image larger than the package and then converting it to a r/o DMG.

[hetjan]

I can’t wait. createUser doesn’t currently work on my 10.5.8 buildtrain

[hetjan]

[Almost] everything works great after converting to .dmg

[hetjan]

So, how did it go?

[hetjan]

Yes, of course.

[hetjan]

😛

Yeah. I didn’t check that. Here it is in [cod_e]
[code]

AsianLanguagesSupport
AdditionalFonts
Japanese
German
French
Spanish
Italian
Dutch
Danish
Finnish
Korean
Norwegian
Russian
Swedish
BrazilianPortuguese
SimplifiedChinese
TraditionalChinese
Portuguese
Polish

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[hetjan]

AsianLanguagesSupport
AdditionalFonts
Japanese
German
French
Spanish
Italian
Dutch
Danish
Finnish
Korean
Norwegian
Russian
Swedish
BrazilianPortuguese
SimplifiedChinese
TraditionalChinese
Portuguese
Polish

[hetjan]

I removed the InstallerChoices.xml file and DVD player is OK now. There is no mention of anything related to the DVD player in the InstallerChoices.xml file. Could this be a bug?

[hetjan]

Intel Xserve (Late 2006) running the latest version of 10.5.5

10.5 Base Image (retail). InstaDMG b4

Here is the list of packages installed:
host:InstallerFiles admin$ ls -al *
BaseOS:
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 5 admin staff 170 Nov 7 11:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 238 Nov 7 11:47 ..
-rw-r–r–@ 1 admin staff 6148 Nov 7 11:50 .DS_Store
-rw-r–r– 1 admin staff 547 Aug 27 09:46 InstallerChoices.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 46 Dec 10 14:26 Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg -> ../../../Packages/Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg

BaseUpdates:
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 9 admin staff 306 Dec 10 16:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 238 Nov 7 11:47 ..
-rw-r–r–@ 1 admin staff 6148 Nov 10 15:11 .DS_Store
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 46 Dec 10 14:26 01 -> ../../../Packages/MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.5.dmg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 40 Dec 10 14:26 02 -> ../../../Packages/SecUpd2008-007.dmg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 49 Dec 10 14:26 03 -> ../../../Packages/AirPortExtremeUp2008004.dmg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 46 Dec 10 14:26 04 -> ../../../Packages/QuickTime755_Leopard.dmg
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 42 Dec 10 16:38 05 -> ../../../Packages/Safari321Leopard.dmg
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 50 Dec 10 16:41 06 -> ../../../Packages/CompatibilityUpdateQT755.dmg

CustomPKG:
total 184
drwxr-xr-x 25 admin staff 850 Dec 10 16:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 238 Nov 7 11:47 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 36 Dec 10 14:26 01 -> ../../../Packages/iLife ’08.mpkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 36 Dec 10 14:26 02 -> ../../../Packages/iPhoto_710.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 36 Dec 10 14:26 03 -> ../../../Packages/iPhoto_714.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 34 Dec 10 14:26 04 -> ../../../Packages/iWeb_203.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 34 Dec 10 14:26 05 -> ../../../Packages/iWeb_204.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 39 Dec 10 14:26 06 -> ../../../Packages/iWork08Trial.mpkg
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 35 Dec 10 16:37 07 -> ../../../Packages/iTunes802.dmg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 37 Dec 10 14:26 08 -> ../../../Packages/Keynote_402.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 37 Dec 10 14:26 09 -> ../../../Packages/Keynote_403.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 40 Dec 10 14:26 10 -> ../../../Packages/GarageBand_411.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 40 Dec 10 14:26 11 -> ../../../Packages/GarageBand_412.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 35 Dec 10 14:26 12 -> ../../../Packages/Pages_302.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 34 Dec 10 14:26 13 -> ../../../Packages/iDVD_702.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 50 Dec 10 14:26 14 -> ../../../Packages/JavaForMacOSX10.5Update2.dmg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 37 Dec 10 14:26 15 -> ../../../Packages/Numbers_102.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 36 Dec 10 14:26 16 -> ../../../Packages/iPhoto_715.dmg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 45 Dec 10 14:26 17 -> ../../../Packages/FrontRowUpdate2.1.6.dmg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 35 Dec 10 14:26 18 -> ../../../Packages/iTunes801.dmg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 41 Dec 10 14:26 19 -> ../../../Packages/RAWCameraUpdate.dmg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 48 Dec 10 14:26 20 -> ../../../Packages/AirPortUtility_Leopard.dmg
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 49 Dec 10 16:40 21 -> ../../../Packages/MigrationDVDCDSharingUp.dmg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 45 Dec 10 14:26 22 -> ../../../Packages/RemoteDesktopClient.dmg
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 36 Dec 10 16:36 23 -> ../../../Packages/iMovie_710.pkg

Contents of InstallerChoices.xml:

host admin$ more InstallerChoices.xml

AsianLanguagesSupport
AdditionalFonts
Japanese
German
French
Spanish
Italian
Dutch
Danish
Finnish
Korean
Norwegian
Russian
Swedish
BrazilianPortuguese
SimplifiedChinese
TraditionalChinese
Portuguese
Polish

[hetjan]

Deploystudio [Server] basically does this. With the included assistant you create a NetBoot from the latest OS and use that as your NetBoot image. You then boot the NetBoot image to image and restore images to your machines.

[hetjan]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: larkost[/u][p]
The main problem that I ran into in my thought exercises was that the 10.5.x upgrades are really the first thing that needs to go on top of the base image, so that would be the obvious place to put in a cache point. However, it is also something that changes on a regular basis. I have some reservations about getting too many cached images. I already think that there will be too many produced when people are playing around with creating their installerchoices file (this was what prompted me to make the command-line switch to turn off caching). Remember: every cached image is at least a couple of Gigs big (mine are 11 Gig). Start multiplying that and we get silly fast.
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I understand your point but would like to point to a different scenario: Let’s say you are preparing images for deployment with a base set of software (lets say MS Office, iLife, Flip4Mac) that goes into ALL your images. Then you have a couple of other build-trains that require additional software (you fill in the blanks). Most (if not all) third party software doesn’t require a specific point release of the OS (f.x. 10.5.3) to run which makes me think that you could create a build-train chain that goes:

BaseOS
Installer Choices.xml

iLife
Flip4Mac
Office2008
iMovie710
iPhoto710

Simple enough. Now imagine we could use the OutputFile as the next build-train’s BaseOS Cache we have something. This time we could do:
OutputFile
BaseUpdates:
10.5.4
Front Row
Quicktime
etc.
CustomPKG:
CS3
iPhoto713
iMovie713
iPhoto714
iMovie714
etc

When a new Combo updater comes out we can replace the current one and save the time installing iLife (it takes a looong time), Flip4Mac and Office2008.

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