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Lnerrrka
07-12-2008, 12:09 PM
Hello, I want to make my own installation dvd Leopard 10.5.4 with all needed drivers and programs for my hackintosh :D
so is this very difficult? Can someone give me a link to tutorial or something :) Thanks
LawlessPPC
07-12-2008, 04:06 PM
i am currently doing this and the available info is slim to say the least. The install DVD is literaly a running version of OSX. When you tell it to install it runs an installation script which tell it which options you have made where the install files are located on the dvd. Best suggestion I can give is have a good poke round the install dvd make an image of it and go from there. Oh and also tell OSX to show all files in terminal or you wont see much.
L8rs
LawlessPPC
naquaada
07-12-2008, 04:12 PM
Has anyone tried to implement the Finder in an installation DVD, exceuteable in the 'Utilities' menu.
LawlessPPC
07-12-2008, 04:22 PM
hmmm. why what are you thinking????
naquaada
07-12-2008, 05:10 PM
what do you mean?
Voyn1x
07-12-2008, 05:11 PM
The old Mac OS had a finder you booted into off the cd. It was really handy in recovering a botched system back then and would be now, especially for us.
naquaada
07-12-2008, 05:39 PM
In the folder Applications/Utilities/ are the tools which can be started in the 'Utilities' menu of the installer dvd. Why not copying the Finder from CoreServices to this directory? Maybe it will be listed in the Utilities menu.
naquaada i tried it when i made my custom install dvd :) the utilities drop down menu didn't worked.
naquaada
07-12-2008, 08:08 PM
And renaming Finder to another tool, f.e. Startvolume? We don't need this on our machines.
Lnerrrka
07-13-2008, 01:14 PM
So if it's dificult to make, then what program can backup bootable partition?
naquaada
07-13-2008, 01:56 PM
Disk Utility can backup bootable partitions - and much more. Read my thread (http://www.infinitemac.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1026&page=1#Item_10) about it.
It would be great to integrate Path Finder as executable program on the DVD. It has much more functions, can handle invisible files, you can set permissions to single files with it and it has an inbuilt terminal.