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OK, I’ll play around with this some more. I did verify the problem is iLifeSupport, I ran the OS updates and iWork and iLife with nothing else and it worked fine. Thanks again,

Mark

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Thanks dano. I did read your post prior to testing but assumed I wouldn’t need the fix for Tiger. Are you recommending to check the iLifeSupport.pkg for problems or the 10.4.11 combo updater pkg?

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I made some progress with the order. This worked:

Installed ./AppleUpdates/01/iTunes.mpkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/02/Java131and142Release2.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/03/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.11PPC.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/04/J2SE50Release4.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/05/QuickTime745_Tiger.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/06/SecUpd2008-003PPC.pkg

Then I tried this:

Installed ./AppleUpdates/01/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.11PPC.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/02/iTunes.mpkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/03/Java131and142Release2.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/04/J2SE50Release4.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/05/QuickTime75_Tiger.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/06/SecUpd2008-003PPC.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/07/Safari311UpdPPC.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/08/JavaForMacOSX10.4Release5.pkg
Installed ./AppleUpdates/09/JavaForMacOSX10.4Release6.pkg
08-06-11
09:06:46
Beginning Update Installs from ./CustomPKG
Installed ./CustomPKG/01/iLife ’08.mpkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/02/iLifeSupport.mpkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/03/iDVD_701.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/04/iPhoto_710.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/05/iMovie_710.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/06/GarageBand_411.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/07/iMovie_711.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/08/iWeb_203.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/09/GarageBand_412.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/10/iPhoto_712.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/11/iWork08.mpkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/12/Keynote_402.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/13/RAWCamera.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/14/iPhoto_713.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/15/Pages_302.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/16/iDVD_702.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/17/Numbers_102.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/18/iMovie_712.pkg
Installed ./CustomPKG/19/Keynote_403.pkg

and none of the iLife or iWork apps worked (just bounce), tried repairing perms with no luck. The version numbers are correct. Also, software update, Safari, and Automator didn’t work. I didn’t go through every app but it’s hit or miss, some launch and some don’t.

These tests were performed on iMac G5’s and eMacs. Has anyone had luck with Tiger PPC’s? Does anyone have a working sw update order for Tiger PPC’s? Unfortunately the time it’s taking me to test is beyond what I had planned and I’m afraid I’m going to have to go back to the old way [cringe] of imaging. Any suggestions would be welcomed!

Thanks,
Mark

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Thanks for answering my questions Patrick, I appreciate it.

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What happens if you take InstaDMG out of the box (er…zip), provide it with the OS image, and then run InstaDMG?

– Patrick[/p][/QUOTE]

That worked. I even tried ARD kickstart, ClearReg, and CreateUser as NetRestore Post-Actions and it worked. Do you think it could have something to do with the Apple Software update order?

Mark

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It worked with version 1.3b. 😳

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I think I figured it out. My bad, somehow I downloaded version 1.0. I’m running 1.3b now and it seems to be working OK. I’ll post back with results.

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Patrick+Fergus[/u][p]You said you’re using an eMac. Are you using a disc image of an Intel version of Tiger to attempt to make your image?[/p][/QUOTE]

No, its a retail 10.4 DVD that we’ve used for our PPC images in the past.

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OK, still no luck. This time I’m running InstaDMG on an eMac running 10.4.11 (still using Tiger as my BaseOS). Now the process takes about a minute. Here’s the terminal window:

HSUpperMediaC3:/Volumes/Macintosh HD/InstaDMG_Resources/Instadmg root# sh instadmg.bash
created: /InstaDMG_Resources/Instadmg/DMG_Scratch/InstaDMG.08-05-15.sparseimage
Started erase on disk disk1

Creating Partition Map
5% ..
Formatting Disk 100% ..
Finished erase on disk disk1

Finished partitioning on disk disk1
hdiutil: mount failed – not recognized
/dev/disk2 /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD
Disk renamed to OS-Build-08-05-15
Disk /dev/disk1 ejected
asr: successfully scanned image “/InstaDMG_Resources/Instadmg/ASR_Output/08-05-15.dmg”
HSUpperMediaC3:/Volumes/Macintosh HD/InstaDMG_Resources/Instadmg root#

and here’s the log:

08-05-15
Creating disk image
Image mounted at /dev/disk1
08-05-15
Beginning Installation from /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD
installer: Cannot install on volume /Volumes/InstaDMG because its disabled.
installer: Mac OS X cannot start up from this volume.
08-05-15
Beginning Update Installs from ./AppleUpdates
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/.DS_Store’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/01’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/02’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/03’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/04’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/05’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./AppleUpdates/06’.
08-05-15
Beginning Update Installs from ./CustomPKG
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./CustomPKG/.DS_Store’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./CustomPKG/01’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./CustomPKG/02’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./CustomPKG/03’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./CustomPKG/04’.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./CustomPKG/05’.
08-05-15
Creating the deployment DMG and scanning for ASR
Rename the deployment volume
Build a new image from folder…
created: /InstaDMG_Resources/Instadmg/ASR_Output/08-05-15.dmg
Scanning image for ASR
Image to scan is ./ASR_Output/08-05-15.dmg
Checksumming partition of size 63 blocks…done
Block checksum: ….10….20….30….40….50….60….70….80….90….100
Reordering: ….10….20….30….40….50….60….70….80….90….100

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Mark

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: pteeter[/u][p]Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure you need a running Tiger OS to create a Tiger InstaDMG.

Using a Tiger BaseOS image on a running Leopard machine won’t work?

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That makes sense. Could I get a confirmation on that? Thanks

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Thanks for the replies! I did cd to the Instadmg folder. For example: cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/InstaDMG_Resources/Instadmg/ and then ran sudo sh instadmg.bash. I believe I have the correct permissions since it creates the BaseOS. I’m logged in as localadmin and have read/write to all the directories inside of InstaDMG_Resources and to the root of Macintosh HD. Any other ideas?

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