A few tricks to get out of jail with OS X installs and updates...
If you have a package that just won't install due to bad voodoo (this can happen if you install a lot of seeds and the stars misalign) you can use this to force the install with this:
If you need to install from an OS CD you can find the package to use for this trick in
One use for this is to force an install onto a partition that the OS doesn't understand. I had my main drive triple-booted to OS X 10.5.8, Windows Vista (don't get me started) and Ubuntu 8.whatever. Remaking this delicate balance without three OS reinstalls is virtually impossible, but the OS X Snow Leopard installer didn't want to install because it didn't understand the partition map.
The fix on the net is to resize the OS X partition, which causes Disk Utility to fondle the partition map in some useful way, but there's no way I want to risk my other OS installs. Installing the OS from the command line with a forced install lets me simply dump the OS onto the drive, and then rEFIt just works because, well, it's rEFIt.
If you have a package that just won't install due to bad voodoo (this can happen if you install a lot of seeds and the stars misalign) you can use this to force the install with this:
sudo CM_BUILD=CM_BUILD COMMAND_LINE_INSTALL=1 installer -verbose -pkg MacOSXUpd10.6.5.pkg -target /If you need to install from an OS CD you can find the package to use for this trick in
/Volumes/volname/System/Installatoin/Packages/OSInstall.mpkgOne use for this is to force an install onto a partition that the OS doesn't understand. I had my main drive triple-booted to OS X 10.5.8, Windows Vista (don't get me started) and Ubuntu 8.whatever. Remaking this delicate balance without three OS reinstalls is virtually impossible, but the OS X Snow Leopard installer didn't want to install because it didn't understand the partition map.
The fix on the net is to resize the OS X partition, which causes Disk Utility to fondle the partition map in some useful way, but there's no way I want to risk my other OS installs. Installing the OS from the command line with a forced install lets me simply dump the OS onto the drive, and then rEFIt just works because, well, it's rEFIt.
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