Comments on: Creating Recovery Partitions

By: john

john — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:44:19 +0000

i have installed software, just not used a mac. first time i have used the command line for that.

By: GregN

GregN — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:07:43 +0000

Surely you’ve installed software before.

Double-click the package and let Installer install it.

I’m not 100% sure it works on anything other than the current boot volume. If you can’t select another volume, you might need to boot from the desired volume, then install the package.

By: john

john — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:02:06 +0000

that is my first package install crap now i can’t type!

By: john

john — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:58:26 +0000

ok, i think i figured out you use installer -pkg ./CreateRecoveryPartition.pkg -target / right ???? if so i have a new question. how can i target the correct disk ? diskutil list shows i have /dev/disk0 – /dev/disk4 and the package got installed on disk4 but i need it on disk0 I realized disk4 was the dmg containing the dmtest and disk1 was the install esd disk so i unmounted both of those and reran the install which said it completed successfully, however i don’t see a recovery partition on any of the remaining disks.

ps. this is my package install on a mac so any help you could give would be really awesome.

By: GregN

GregN — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:46:53 +0000

If these tools and instructions are too difficult to follow, you might be interested in this: https://github.com/MagerValp/Create-Recovery-Partition-Installer

By: GregN

GregN — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:44:56 +0000

Install the package you just created.

By: john

john — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:38:24 +0000

hello, I am very green with this so please bear with me.
I have downloaded the package file and my Contents directory looks like your post ( it contains the dmtest and the two Base files

so how do i run it? also do i need to have an empty partition on the disk for it to fit into? or will it hack out part of the first partition?

By: GregN

GregN — Sat, 04 May 2013 14:20:11 +0000

Re-read the post and follow the instructions. If there is a specific part that that is unclear or confusion, ask a specific question. To start, it’s not clear if you also grabbed the package template here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8119814/CreateRecoveryPartition.pkg.zip

By: Burny

Burny — Sat, 04 May 2013 12:46:03 +0000

Guys, I have all the stuff together (Lion Recovery Update package, the BaseSystem.dmg and BaseSystem.chunklist), but no idea what to do now … could anybody explain that to me?

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:20:20 +0000

Have I mentioned lately that I love you? Thank you so much for making the tools you use available to all of us without your skills. My 700 macs would be completely lost without you.