- #OS X LION DMG MAC OS X#
- #OS X LION DMG INSTALL#
- #OS X LION DMG UPDATE#
Today I’m introducing createOSXinstallPkg. InstallLion.pkg can be used to make an installer package for Mountain Lion.īut I have a better set of tools for you. Now that Mountain Lion has been released, you may be wondering: “Can I use these tools to create a deployment package for Mountain Lion?” The answer is yes. Last fall, I released a set of tools I called “InstallLion.pkg”. Rich Trouton has documented these options:
#OS X LION DMG INSTALL#
You can upgrade an existing volume, or erase and install to an empty disk. It’s possible to use DeployStudio to install Lion or Mountain Lion on a target volume using a package created by createOSXinstallPkg. createOSXinstallPkg allows you to create Lion and Mountain Lion installers on Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion.
InstaDMG and SIU generally limit you to building an image on the same OS in other words, you can only build Mountain Lion images on a Mountain Lion machine, and Lion images on a Lion machine. If you use an imaging approach, you have create the Recovery HD separately either by capturing and deploying an image of the Recovery HD, or using another scripted process to create it. Installing Lion or Mountain Lion causes the appropriate Recovery HD to be created automatically. “Imaging” requires erasing the target first. You can upgrade or reinstall OS X on a current boot volume without affecting user data. It’s much faster to restore a disk image to a target volume than it is to install the components seperately.īut there are advantages to the “install the components” approach as well: System Image Utility can do that as well, or it can create a NetInstall workflow that just installs the components in order.Īn advantage of the “compiled” disk image approach is speed. The difference is that InstaDMG “compiles” those components into a disk image that you “restore” to a target volume. One or more additional packages to install after the OS is installed. OS X installation media (usually an InstallESD.dmg). If you’ve used InstaDMG or Apple’s System Image Utility to build a deployment image, you might notice that the components you use are very similar to the components you use to create a Lion or Mountain Lion installer package. Now that you can create an Installer package to install Lion or Mountain Lion, you have the possibility of using this package instead of an “image” to initially setup/configure a machine. #OS X LION DMG UPDATE#
You can now use this package to install a Recovery partition (or update an existing partition).
You’re done unless you’d like to edit the package identifier and/or version in CreateRecoveryPartition.pkg/Contents/ist. When you are done, CreateRecoveryPartition.pkg/Contents/Resources/ should contain: Hdiutil eject /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ESD/ Hdiutil attach /path/to/InstallESD.dmg -noverifyĬp /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.* /path/to/CreateRecoveryPartition.pkg/Contents/Resources/ RecoveryUpdate/RecoveryHDUpdate.pkg/Scripts/Tools/Ĭp dmtest /path/to/CreateRecoveryPartition.pkg/Contents/Resources/ To use it, you’ll still need to obtain the dmtest tool from the Lion Recovery Update package and the BaseSystem.dmg and BaseSystem.chunklist from an InstallESD.dmg. Since getting all of that running might be a nasty hurdle to jump for some, I’ve put together a package template you can use.
#OS X LION DMG MAC OS X#
The BaseSystem.dmg and BaseSystem.chunklist from an InstallESD.dmg found inside “Install Mac OS X Lion.app” or “Install OS X Mountain Lion.app”Īdditionally, Allen’s solution requires the use of Joe Block’s The Luggage, which in turn requires Xcode (or at least the Xcode command line tools) and PackageMaker. The solution requires you get a few pieces from Apple: Allen Golbig has an article on AFP548 on creating a package that will create or update a Recovery partition on a Lion or Mountain Lion volume.
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