Comments on: How to Create a Disk Image Installer for Apple Mac OS X

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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:21:26 +0000

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By: KevinG

KevinG — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:41:53 +0000

Thanks for the wonderful article - I spent all day trying to do something similar without know much about using macs. Your well written blog quickly helped me create the image I needed.

By: SciTools

SciTools — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:39:53 +0000

OS X and Understand 2.0…

Recently we added OS X support for Understand 2.0. I’m not a Mac user myself, but as the “Build Engineer” I’ve spent quite a bit of time on our Mac build machine lately getting the installer polished up and I have……

By: Geowerker

Geowerker — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:06:56 +0000

With Leopard, some changes to Disk Utility complicate the “Creating a Disk Image Template” step. When creating a new image, if you change the ‘Volume Size’ the ‘Partitions’ setting will change. Before you click ‘Create’, ‘Partitions’ should be set to ‘No partitions’. I had problems with other settings (the sparseimage disk name would revert to ‘Disk 1′ after being ejected); may be a Disk Utility bug, but no one should need multiple partitions for an installer anyway.

By: Halkmund

Halkmund — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:14:41 +0000

I had to change “hdutil unmount /Volumes/YoyodyneApp” into “hdutil eject /Volumes/YoyodyneApp” for the script to work. With the unmount verb the convert failed because of the sparseimage resource being temporarily unavailable… (in use by diskarbitrationd).

The rest all works fine. Nice job.