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Old 09-28-2009, 03:42 PM
thorazine74 thorazine74 is offline
 
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OSInstall.mpkg for MBR installation that works?

It looks like the well-known patch to OSInstall.mpkg to allow you to install to MBR partitions is not working as it should.
I edited one and it worked when you launch the OSInstall.mpkg from inside Leopard, but this same file doesnt let you install to MBR partitions when you boot the install media (from a USB partition in my case).
It looks like the check for the destination partition is not in effect at all when launching the installer from a running system (i.e. not only you can install to MBR but it lets you install to FAT32, EXT3, NTFS partitions, something that is supposed to be imposible and would not work at all), but its actually enforced when booting from the install media, and the known way to bypass the check (editing "EraseOptionAvailable=true" line in the "Distribution" file) doesnt seem to work anymore:
Anyone knows whats going on?
Or better, anyone managed to install Snow Leo on a MBR partition booting from the installation media?

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