Onyx 10.6.8 Mac OS X Install DVD

The source image needs to be imagescanned before it can be restored.

Early 2011 MacBook Pros fall in this category.

Version 10.6.7 was the last version released on DVD, but the DVDs were locked to specific machines.

This file in the 10.6.7 Installer is where the checking is done to see if its installing to the correct computer.

We do this because the retail installation script wont install the 10.6.7 printer packages.

Check the copy all box when the Finder warns you that the files already exist.

Find the drive on the left side of the Disk Utility window and click on it.

Now click Partition, chose 1 Partition, give it a name and click the Options button.

When the Disk Utility is done, use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the modified 10.6.7 Installer to the 8 gig keychain drive.

I had problems getting the Backup utility in Disk Utility to do this.

You can boot any ready for Snow Leopard Mac with this Installer.

I have a 27 iMac running Snow Leopard, the OS it shipped with.

Apple started to only sell it with Lion once it was released.

You will have to do this again, in another window, for the 10.6.7 Installer disk.

My method (and I will freely admit this was not my original idea) is to use a disk image of a 10.6.8 working HD that has not yet been through the personalization.

I restored this image to a few destinationsa toolkit, of sortsa USB hard drive, FireWire HD, USB flash drive, and even a SDHC card.

Finally, I copied the original disk image (as a.dmg) to these destinations.

Obviously, you need something like a 16GB flash drive or SDHC card.

I can then boot the intended target machine using one of these devices and use Disk Utility to restore the virgin 10.6.8 disk image to the machines hard drive.

With a FireWire machine, however, its often easier to boot the target machine in target disk mode, plug it into my iMac, and do the restore from there.

As a side benefit, there are very few software updates then required.

I build Vanilla 10.6.8 unbooted images with a few extra packages tagged on using InstaDMG which get laid down on compatible hardware using Deploystudio or SIU (System image utility is sort of redundant for me now) However if you have to do system upgrades this is a handy hint with the hardware which will not boot from 10.6 or 10.6.3 retail.

Thanks for figuring out the logic was in OSInstall.mpkg, I had wondered that for a while but put it on the back burner.

So now, its an automated affair, and it retains the original OSInstall.mpkg and print drivers.

Onyx 10.6.8 Mac OS X Install DVD

I am starting with a mounted.DMG of 10.6.7 on my desktop and its appearing as Mac OS X Install DVD.

This is the error I get, when I try your.command file, in Terminal: exit; destinationDesktopMac: bad interpreter: No such file or directory logout Any help I also dont see any mention of the print drivers in your script.

Onyx For Mac 10.6.8