[typofonic]

Hi thespider,

Thanks for your reply!

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: thespider[/u][p]I would guess that it’s running the commands on the local system, not the Image. You have to preface the commands to point to the InstaDMG Image. Use a $3 to specify the image.

See this thread:
https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=45&showtopic=22379&highlight=$3%5B/QUOTE%5D

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Ok, so I guess I change it from this:

defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup 1
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine AutoBackup 0

to this:

defaults write $3/com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup 1
defaults write $3/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine AutoBackup 0

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But what do I do with a line like this:
systemsetup -setcomputername typofonic-com

As far as I’ve understood, from the post you link to a command like the one above can only be run after startup? See below

[QUOTE]
OR, run the script at first boot of the image with a launchd item.[/p][/QUOTE]

How do I exactly do that? It seems that it would be much easier to run all the scripts on first boot of the image so they don’t have to be modified?

Thanks

Anders, Denmark

[typofonic]

Hi Trondah,

I’d be very interested in seeing your config as well.

– Anders, Denmark

[typofonic]

Hi arekdreyer,

Could you post your script? I have some problems making it check “Use Network Timeserver” in the preferences using a postfight script.

– Anders

[typofonic]

19:47:19 ######InstaDMG build initiated######
19:47:19 ######Mounting Mac OS X installer image######
Mounting the main OS Installer Disk from: ./InstallerFiles/BaseOS/Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg at: /Volumes/work//instaDMGMount.nOxitj
Mac OS X installer image mounted
19:47:23 ######Creating intermediary disk image######
created: /Volumes/work//instaDMGTemp.wQNthu.sparseimage
Image mounted at /dev/disk2
Running on Intel Platform: Setting format to GPT
Started erase on disk disk2
Creating partition map
Formatting disk2s2 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name 125516B8-FB9E-4960-983E-F31D1FB41426

Finished erase on disk disk2
Finished partitioning on disk disk2
/dev/disk2 GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk2s1 EFI
/dev/disk2s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/work//instaDMGMount.kpW1p3
Intimediary image creation complete
19:47:49 ######Beginning Installation from /Volumes/work//instaDMGMount.nOxitj######
I’m running on Leopard or later. Checking for InstallerChoices.xml file
InstallerChoices.xml file found. Applying Choices
installer: Package name is Mac OS X
installer: choices changes file ‘./InstallerFiles/BaseOS/InstallerChoices.xml’ applied
installer: Installing at base path /Volumes/work//instaDMGMount.kpW1p3
installer: Preparing for installation…..
installer: Preparing the Disk…..
installer: Preparing Target Volume
#
installer: Preparing Mac OS X…..
installer: Running Installer actions
installer:
installer: Installing BaseSystem…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
installer: The install failed (The Installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.)
Base OS installed
Compacting and saving cached image to: ./Caches/BaseImageCache/2F403AAB:99fedc6f572285e5c3f889163e46e281f2c590d4.dmg
“disk2” unmounted.
“disk2” ejected.
Remounting the image with a shadow file (/Volumes/work//instaDMGTemp.wQNthu.sparseimage)
/dev/disk2 GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk2s1 EFI
/dev/disk2s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/work//instaDMGMount.kpW1p3
19:48:04 ######Beginning Update Installs from ./InstallerFiles/BaseUpdates######
Installing MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4.pkg from ./InstallerFiles/BaseUpdates/1
installer: Package name is Mac OS X Update Combined
installer: Installing at base path /Volumes/work//instaDMGMount.kpW1p3
installer: Preparing for installation…..
installer: Preparing the Disk…..
installer: Preparing Target Volume
#
installer: Preparing Mac OS X Update Combined…..
installer: Running Installer actions
installer:
installer: Installing MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
installer: The install failed (The Installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.)
—-CUT THE REST OF THE PACKAGES—-
19:50:04 ######Correcting some generic installer errors######
Correcting symlinks that point off the disk
Closing programs that have opened files on the disk

Does this give any hints?

[typofonic]

Any updates on this? 🙂

[typofonic]

Mosen,

That’s great to hear. That could be really useful for a of people!

Please keep us updated on it!

[typofonic]

Hmm…I ran the newest svn version you made yesterday and it broke my main system. I got an “Unable to login because an error occured” with all my users on my main startup partition. It renamed my “work” partition to instaDMG and installed all the system files on it. Anyway it broke something major on my system – but I guess it’s about time I reinstalled anyway. But I’m back on track again now and I haven’t lost any stuff. I hope there aren’t too many “rm -rf” commands in the instaDMG script 😉

Don’t know what happened. Maybe something about the paths.

Also I’m not sure what you meant regarding the volume format. I’m using Jounaled Case Insensitive HFS+ volumes – the default HFS+ Journaled format of OS X. I assume this should work?

But it still doesn’t work. Any ideas?

[typofonic]

Ok, I tried the new version but unfortunately this version came up with errors. I got the following output:

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“typofonic-com:InstaDMG_1.4b3 anni1105$ sudo ./instadmg.bash -t /Volumes/work/
19:47:19 ######InstaDMG build initiated######
19:47:19 ######Mounting Mac OS X installer image######
Mounting the main OS Installer Disk from: ./InstallerFiles/BaseOS/Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg at: /Volumes/work//instaDMGMount.nOxitj
Mac OS X installer image mounted
19:47:23 ######Creating intermediary disk image######
Image mounted at /dev/disk2
Running on Intel Platform: Setting format to GPT
Intimediary image creation complete
19:47:49 ######Beginning Installation from /Volumes/work//instaDMGMount.nOxitj######
I’m running on Leopard or later. Checking for InstallerChoices.xml file
InstallerChoices.xml file found. Applying Choices
2008-09-06 19:47:54.369 installer[40979:3f13] *** Assertion failure in -[IFInstallPlan setValue:forAttribute:], /SourceCache/Install/Install-384/source/engine/helpers/IFInstallPlan.m:302
Installing BaseSystem…..
Base OS installed
Compacting and saving cached image to: ./Caches/BaseImageCache/2F403AAB:99fedc6f572285e5c3f889163e46e281f2c590d4.dmg
Remounting the image with a shadow file (/Volumes/work//instaDMGTemp.wQNthu.sparseimage)
19:48:04 ######Beginning Update Installs from ./InstallerFiles/BaseUpdates######
Installing MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4.pkg from ./InstallerFiles/BaseUpdates/1
2008-09-06 19:48:08.311 installer[41187:3e13] *** Assertion failure in -[IFInstallPlan setValue:forAttribute:], /SourceCache/Install/Install-384/source/engine/helpers/IFInstallPlan.m:302

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Also I tried to save the cache files to my cache directory at “/Volumes/work/Inbox, Outbox & Archive/Archive/System/Scratch/InstaDMG” and got the following output:

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typofonic-com:InstaDMG_1.4b3 anni1105$ sudo ./instadmg.bash -t /Volumes/work/Inbox,\ Outbox\ \&\ Archive/Archive/System/Scratch/InstaDMG
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Archive/Archive/System/Scratch/InstaDMG/instaDMGTemp.hS2RzM: No such file or directory
mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /Volumes/work/Inbox,: File exists
mktemp: mkdtemp failed on Outbox: File exists
mktemp: mkdtemp failed on &: File exists
mktemp: mkdtemp failed on Archive/Archive/System/Scratch/InstaDMG/instaDMGMount.kJ2oUJ: No such file or directory
19:50:47 ######InstaDMG build initiated######
19:50:47 ######Mounting Mac OS X installer image######
mktemp: mkstemp failed on /Volumes/work/Inbox,: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Outbox: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on &: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Archive/Archive/System/Scratch/InstaDMG/instaDMGTemp.kay54B: No such file or directory
mktemp: mkstemp failed on /Volumes/work/Inbox,: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Outbox: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on &: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Archive/Archive/System/Scratch/InstaDMG/instaDMGTemp.qMvH4S: No such file or directory
mktemp: mkstemp failed on /Volumes/work/Inbox,: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Outbox: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on &: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Archive/Archive/System/Scratch/InstaDMG/instaDMGTemp.aqYpyK: No such file or directory
mktemp: mkstemp failed on /Volumes/work/Inbox,: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Outbox: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on &: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Archive/Archive/System/Scratch/InstaDMG/instaDMGTemp.bhF4w1: No such file or directory
mktemp: mkstemp failed on /Volumes/work/Inbox,: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Outbox: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on &: File exists
mktemp: mkstemp failed on Archive/Archive/System/Scratch/InstaDMG/instaDMGTemp.hCBqRO: No such file or directory
./instadmg.bash: line 408: : No such file or directory
./instadmg.bash: line 415: : No such file or directory
Mounting the shadow file (/Volumes/work/Inbox, Outbox & Archive/Archive/System/Scratch/InstaDMG/E25A38E3-16DE-4E9D-B102-721195C4BE45.dmg) onto the image.
hdiutil: attach: cannot convert “” to URL
./instadmg.bash: line 424: : No such file or directory
rm: : No such file or directory
rm: : No such file or directory
rm: : No such file or directory
rm: : No such file or directory
rm: : No such file or directory
ERROR: the main install disk was not sucessfully mounted!
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So it seems that it doesn’t deal well with pathnames with space and special characters like “&”.

[typofonic]

Thanks larkost – that was fast!

I got the latest svn version and tried using the flag (and deleting my original cached baseInstall Leopard image before I ran it) but unfortunately it still created gigabytes of files in /tmp on my startup partition (including a .dmg of 3.22 gb). It seems only some of the files were moved….
Any ideas?

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