Installesd.dmg Lion Unable To Scan Installesd Dmg Function Not Implemented In C Sep 17, 2010 Re: Unable to create RDM on NFS share - function not implemented weinstein5 Sep 17, 2010 8:28 AM ( in response to AWo ) To add - if you want native access from your VM just load an NFS client to your VM's guest OS. Format USB Flash Drive. The macOS Sierra installer takes up 5.1GB of space on the USB flash drive, so you will need a flash drive with a capacity of 8GB or greater. Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg inside the SharedSupport folder to InstallESD.dmg Edit InstallInfo.plist using WordPad (or another text editor) and remove the chunklistURL and chunklistid keys for InstallESD as well as rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg (example here) Write BaseSystem to USB Format the USB drive using Boot Disk Utility.

It’s the time of year where we start to think about upgrading our machines to the latest version of OS X. There are several ways of doing this, but assuming your users are unable to perform the upgrade themselves via the App Store (if they’re running as a standard user or your policies prohibit the use of the App Store), you might be wondering how you can use your management tool to get your machines upgraded and make sure they stay enrolled in your management tool.

We’re fortunate that we have a standard packaging format on OS X that virtually all management tools can install, so this is the most universal way of distributing software. Greg Neagle wrote createOSXinstallPkg a few years ago that has several nice features for mac admins:

• It wraps up an OS X Installer into a standard package.
• It allows you to add in additional packages - perhaps you want to make sure your admin user is installed or make sure that a version of Munki that is compatible with the new OS is installed.

Yosemite introduced a nice undocumented requirement that all packages included in the OS X installer environment are distribution packages. This is in addition to the limited OS X Installer environment not having many of the command line tools you might expect to be there.

One solution to these issues is to use first-boot-pkg - a tool that will install a set of packages at first boot, and will wrap them in a distribution style package so it can be used with createOSXinstallPkg.

The first boot package

Our first job is to build the package that will be installed at first boot. I am only going to make sure that Munki is installed at first boot, but some other things you might want to put in include:

• Your local admin user
• Puppet and Facter
• A payload free package to configure your SUS CatalogURL

Prep for the first boot package

First off we’re going to need the script to build a first boot package. Assuming you’re going to keep your code in ~/src:

You have two options for configuring the first boot package - you can pass it options on the command line or you can use a plist. We’re using a plist as it’s the most repeatable and sharable method. If you need further options, such as disabling the network check, see the project on Github.

The above is assuming you’ve saved your Munki package to ~/src/first-boot-pkg/munkitools-2.3.1.2535.pkg (i.e. in the same directory as your first-boot-config.plist).

Building the first boot package

Let’s make sure we’re in the right directory:

And let’s build the package:

Making the OS X upgrade package

As previously mentioned, we’re going to use createOSXinstallPkg, so let’s grab that:

And assuming your OS X Installer is saved to the usual place:

createOSXinstallPkg will let you know how it’s doing:

And voilla! You have a package that can be deployed by virtually any management tool (Munki in my case) that will make sure the latest version of Munki is also installed at the same time.

In all cases you need a 8GiB+ usb storage and you will need to erase it withDisk Utility (and be very careful not to erase the wrong one!).

SD Cards: If you use an SD Card with a USB adapter, it probablyWILL NOT WORK as a bootable USB mass storage device. I'd recommend you stopby walmart real quick to pick up a 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive for $12.99.

• Disk Utility
• 7.95 GB Mass Storage / Card Reader
• Partition
• Partition Layout: 1 Partition
• Name: Install OS X <<whatever>>
• Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
• Options
  • GUID Partition
• Erase

Once you've created the installation drive, you'll reboot the computer and hold down the option (alt) key until you see the list of options (generally including your hard drive, time machine, the default recovery partition, and your disk).

Yosemite 10.10

This creates a bootable usb / sd card which shows up as Recovery OS X 10.10 and will still require WiFi to complete the installation (maybe just for verification, maybe it downloads the whole thing... again, I don't know).

Mavericks 10.9

Same as Yosemite. Requires WiFi during installation.

Mountain Lion 10.8

NOTE: Many people recommend (Lion) DiskMaker Xfor Mountain Lion, but it didn't work for me.

Alternate Method

Now in Disk Utility:

1. Click on 'Mac OS X Base System' in the bottom pane under 'BaseSystem.dmg'
2. Click 'Restore'
3. Drag 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' (the partition on the drive, not the top-level drive) as 'Destination'
4. Click 'Restore'
5. Wait about 10 minutes
6. unmount 'Mac OS X Base System' and eject 'BaseSystem.dmg'

Lion 10.7

NOTE: Many people recommend (Lion DiskMakerfor Lion, but it didn't work for me.

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Now in Disk Utility:

1. Click on 'Mac OS X Base System' in the bottom pane under 'BaseSystem.dmg'
2. Click 'Restore'
3. Drag 'Install OS X Lion' (the partition on the drive, not the top-level drive) as 'Destination'
4. Click 'Restore'
5. Wait about 10 minutes

m5dsums

I couldn't find my install download and it's no longer available on the App Store, so I torrented a copy that matched retail md5sums.

• eec8b65b0a8213c526f7cad2d5e8b462 Mac OS X Lion.dmg
• b5d3753c62bfb69866e94dca9336a44a Install OS X Lion.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
• 304d377f4eb83232c6d7f580119d2db2 Mac OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg

Torrent Search: 'Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (Final Retail)'

Snow Leopard 10.6

I think you mount the DVD image and restore it to your prepared flash drive... not sure about this one.

m5dsums

I couldn't find my install download and it's no longer available on the App Store, so I torrented a copy. Not sure if this is tampered with or not since I can't validate the md5.

• ea7fe76fbd3918f57ad66a46ecad22fa Mac OS X Install DVD Snow Leopard RETAIL.dmg

Torrent Search: 'Mac OS X Install DVD Snow Leopard RETAIL.dmg'

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