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Once you have that image to the right size, you add disc 2 and 3 to it. Operation not permitted 1. I'm seeing exactly the same behavior logged in as admin using the command exactly as stated also prefaced by sudo or logged in as root. I've seen this error both under Panther Client and Server. Any clues would be appreciated. I fell into a similar trap as jubelc.

I was attempting to use an existing. It seems the. BTW, great hint. How stupid of me It was Read-only all this time until I tried again. The solution was to burn multiple "images" to the DVD. Obviously the Finder won't let you do this. I did it with a Windows program that's where the burner was. Just burn both ISOs onto the disc. Don't overwrite what's there. The images end up one after each other and both appear when you insert the disk. Mind you, that only works on MacOS.

Windows and Unix only saw the last partition on the disk. Rather than partition the DVD, it's easier to make the original image large enough to contain DMG files of the additional things yoiu want to have available from the installer disk.

After completing the steps provided Thank you for the clear instructions - worked flawlessly! Anything that can be installed from a DMG file will work. Happy New Year! All my computers have DVD readers in them, so I haven't been able to test this yet.

Anyone know. DVD's are completely different from CDs. They require a smaller laser to be read. Is there a way to make a dvd out of Panther upgrade disks? I made the. I am guessing it's because I have upgrade disks. I had to use TextEdit to make the changes to the plist file. Actually, I pasted the contents of the plist into BBEdit, made the changes there, then pasted the changed text into TextEdit and saved it.

I made the disc image larger as I wanted a little more flexibility in adding other installers I wanted on the disc. The disc booted for me, I've yet to use it as the backup of my home and Applications folder is not complete yet. Followup I installed Panther on a spare drive last night. Everything worked as was expected. Those that are questioning the speed of installing from DVD vs.

CD should note my install took about 14 minutes. I skipped the verifiy disc option which could very well be turned off somehow anyway. How did you create the image? Let's try the obvious first. You are expanding a Mb drive image to 2Gb.

Do you have about 1. I've tried this out, and everything worked great So I restarted and held the 'C' key in, and it did not work. Nor did it work when holding in 'Option' What gives?

How can I solve this problem? Please help!!! I was having this problem all day yesterday and finally figured it out Then follow the instructions for enlarging and adding the extra files. After making several coasters I was finally successful in creating a working disc!

Hope this helps. The best way to check is to mount the image, open System Preferences to Startup Disk and make sure the image shows up. If it does, burn the image and it will work fine. As of yet, the whole concept of creating sparse images and restoring mean nothing to me. Although at the moment I'm trying what you suggested on a Mac without a DVD burner mine is 40 miles away.

Thanks for the suggestion. That's what I said man. Except there is no reason to use non free software when it is built into Disk Util. While I agree that a single DVD is more convenient than multiple CDs, given the disparity between the read speeds for the two formats, I should think that the install would be much slower with the DVD.

Why not use the above methods to put the install on a portable firewire disk for maximum speed? If you make a disk image from a bootable CD, the disk image will be bit-by-bit identical to the original and will thus also be bootable.

If you make a new non-bootable image, just copying some files to it won't make it bootable; you still need to modify the header. About the first steps: I already made an image of the install cds, so I could use the first image as a base.. If you make it too large, you just shrink it with the resize option again.. Most likely I had the export mode on with disc copy see hints on macosxhints. Is there an export mode with the panther version of disc utility there must be? For including installers and other installs of updated software and possible other software, I would really like to know how that can be done.

This already saves me awful lot of time as I have to manage the macs at work.. Hi, I've been working through this and so far so good, but at step 6 I see no such plist files to edit.

There are 5 items in the packages folder, a QT installer and 4 other packages printer drivers, X11, etc. I have followed the instructions carefully I believe , I must be missing something?

These are Thanks, Brian. Can anyone Give step by step instructions on adding packages to the install, It seems very confusing when i read other posts Thanks Beto. I just managed to install Panther using disk images of the official installation disks. As other people have found, I couldn't create a CD that I could start up from using the disk images I had, and the installer wouldn't run from my external firewire drive.

However, I found that some of the. There you go. You may not have CDs but at least you'll have Panther. The logging in as root thing is very important; if the installer is run by anyone apart from root then the resulting startup disk will have some of the permissions set up wrong and won't work.

Thanks Ditdotdat. You don't know how useful this comment was. Some useful additional information: This works on a single drive that is formatted with two paritions. I used it to update Jaguar and upon restart was asked for disk 2, which I luckily had a cd copy of. This also helped me install panther despite my broken cd drive in an ibook Because one cannot start up from a usb cd drive.

Another interesting thing is that once panther was installed my previously useless built in cd rom drive kind of works now. I think Jaguar was getting a bit bloated and having a hard time using it for some reason.

I just tried to use the built in burner, but couldnt select the image file. I tried to use toast version 6, when i loaded the image file it also wouldnt do it disk copy to disk nor would it work using data. Any suggestions? OK, I managed to make the DVD and it boots OK, but part-way through installation says "errors occoured" and does not complete the install properly the target disk is also not available as a startup disk.

Anyone know what this could be? The next morning, there were problems like yours and they appear to be continuing. Normally, the installer downloads and begins to run once the download is complete. But it then waits for you to continue, including choosing the target for the installation.

That's the opportunity to quit instead of proceeding and then making a copy to archive. Apr 12, PM. Page content loaded. And since it weighs in at over 5GB, do you notice any change in available space from last evening? Apr 12, AM. Thanks for the reply. According to the App Store app, it should not have auto-installed.

At least that was my interpretation of " I take the spinning gear as being an icon of "getting ready" that should have been replaced by a progress bar. The fact that the progress bar never appeared makes me think that there is something amiss on Apple's end. I'm unsure that my recollection of seeing "Downloaded: the next AM was correct. I could have mistaken "Download" for "Downloaded. I made a second attempt today and the App Store app has been running since before noon now 9 PM.

The animated gear rotating is all I see. No progress bar whatsoever. Network data transfer is very low. Based upon this, I don't think that any download is in progress. The AppStore app is just spinning its wheels. Not that it will be of any help this time, but I'd suggest checking out this list of current Mac stuff in the afternoon each day.

There were a number of mentions there of the release of It is unlikely that this is a problem with busy servers. I ran into the same problem a few weeks ago trying to re-download Mountain Lion.

In spite of clicking the "Continue" button, nothing whatsoever happened. I tried it on a couple of systems, with the same result. I finally had to boot from a Snow Leopard drive, dismount any attached drive that contained Mountain Lion or a later OS, and after that was finally able to get the installer app for Mountain Lion to download.

The App Store is a buggy mess. As of the time of this posting the problem still exists. In my case the spinning activity indicator disappears after three seconds and the "download" button changes color from dark to light gray and no longer responds to clicks. Restarting the App Store app re-enables the button but I get the same result.

Apr 15, PM. Would be nice if they had post-restore actions, tho. Has anyone actually verified that you can restore any given disk image, and that it will be bootable? I heard there were some limitations on what could be restored properly. If so, then ths is indeed exactly what we all needed back in Or a "bootable" disk image. Or does it? I guess you still need CCC for that. Am I right? If Disk Copy's features are now part of Disk Utility, and it's on the Panther install CD, you might be able to boot from the CD and utilize Disk Utility's new features to backup your hard drive just prior to installing Panther.

Can anyone verify this before I decide to get Panther? Jaguar has had this ability since around Do 'man asr' in Terminal to read all about it. Works very well indeed in Jaguar. I've tried it but I had problems. I did nothing special, just copied the drive to a firewire drive. I used the panther install CD and after 2? Also note, that ditto changed, and that is why many utils out there do not work with panther. It does zip archiving --probably what the finder uses! Just a guess, but You can find this setting in the volume's get-info window select the volume, then command-i , and looking for the check box in the "permissions" section.

Yes, I did. I just tried it again. I know its off, now I run it, and it turned it on! So for some reason disk util is setting it to ignore permissions I've got 2 partitions, perhaps that is part of it, and why others says it works. And I played around with the other partition and it still does it to me! So, now I tried asr the command line tool that disk util uses. Now it works just fine. So somehow the ignore permissions keeps being turned on by diskutil but asr does not do this, and so it works