Comments on: Son of InstallLion.pkg

By: First Boot Install Package.pkg | Der Flounder

First Boot Install Package.pkg | Der Flounder — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:40:10 +0000

[…] covered previously, Greg Neagle’s createOSXinstallPkg is a versatile tool for installing or upgrading Mac OS X in a variety of situations. One of the […]

By: Renjith

Renjith — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:52:43 +0000

Sorry again. Plist without tag s
?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?
!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”
plist version=”1.0″
array
string /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg /string
string /System/Installation/Packages/chimera.pkg /string
/array
/plist

By: Renjith

Renjith — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:50:34 +0000

By: Renjith

Renjith — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:48:24 +0000

Hi,
I am trying to implement a similar method to create a hackintosh installer USB from the InstallESD.dmg. I wanted the installer to automatically install the boot loader and copy a directory (Extra) to target volume.
I tried to create a OSInstall.collection plist with contents :

/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg
/System/Installation/Packages/chimera.pkg

where chimera.pkg is a flat pkg which installs the Chimera bootloader (Chameleon boot loader with a few experimental branches merged)
The installer does not start. It says :
”
There was a problem reading the Mac OS X installation disc.
Carefully clean the disc, and then try reinstalling
”
Installer log has these messages :
”
Opening OSInstall package ‘/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.collection’.
Collections: firtst non-recursive document (/System/Installation/Packages/chimera.pkg) is not an OSInstall document.
Collections:Couldn’t create collection from path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.collection
Couldn’t verify OS X (Server) Install media.
”

Is there anything I should add beside creating the OSInstall.collection ?

By: Stephan Peterson

Stephan Peterson — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:34:09 +0000

I have the same issue in my environment. I found success by letting curl know about my proxy. I created ~/.curlrc and put in the following entry:

proxy = http://:

Hope this helps.

By: Automatically Enable WiFi At Login Window

Automatically Enable WiFi At Login Window — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:00:26 +0000

[...] in 10 Days,” my process involves crafting an OS X installer package using Greg Neagle’s CreateOSXInstallPkg to incorporate Munki, iCloud prompt / Lion registration suppression, a local admin account, and [...]

By: David

David — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:39:19 +0000

To answer my own question it must be due to using a proxy which curl is not picking up. So more Googling I guess.

By: David

David — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:07:33 +0000

I get this error:

Downloading and adding IncompatibleAppList pkg…
Error 7 retrieving https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
curl: (7) couldn’t connect to host

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Volumes/SA-dayta-2/createOSXinstallPkg_20120831/createOSXinstallPkg”, line 883, in
main()
File “/Volumes/SA-dayta-2/createOSXinstallPkg_20120831/createOSXinstallPkg”, line 857, in main
getPkgAndMakeIndexSproduct(destpath, os_vers=os_version)
File “/Volumes/SA-dayta-2/createOSXinstallPkg_20120831/createOSXinstallPkg”, line 561, in getPkgAndMakeIndexSproduct
url = findIncompatibleAppListPkgURL(catalog_url, package_name)
File “/Volumes/SA-dayta-2/createOSXinstallPkg_20120831/createOSXinstallPkg”, line 513, in findIncompatibleAppListPkgURL
catalog = plistlib.readPlistFromString(catalog_str)
File “/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plistlib.py”, line 103, in readPlistFromString
return readPlist(StringIO(data))
TypeError: expected read buffer, NoneType found

I tried pasting the url into Safari and it does connect, so I have no idea why it should fail with curl.

By: GregN

GregN — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:17:03 +0000

For those playing along at home, the fix was:

When you tell Casper to restart, make sure you specify “Currently Selected Startup Disk (No Bless)”.

The OS X Install process causes the boot volume to be configured in an unusual way, causing the machine to boot from a disk image so it can install OS X on the “live” disk. If Casper re-blesses the startup disk (in the normal way), upon reboot, the machine simply reboots into the existing OS. No install will occur.

Preserving the blessed boot environment is vital to the OS X install process.

By: terrystwocents74

terrystwocents74 — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:32:29 +0000

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Turns out it was how I had set up the policy. Thanks!