How to install Tiger from bundled disks on another machine.

[lerxst]

I'm trying this experiment now and am wondering how people (successfully) edited the OSInstall.dist fille. I opened it with Vim but it says my image is readonly. What do I need to do to the image to allow writing back of the changed file? Do I need to reset the permissions afterwards?

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Whats really strange here is that I saved the image file as read/write enabled. But when I get to the "system" folder and get "info" it says read only. So I change it and do the same for all the folders and items intil I get to the OSInstall.dist. I modify that as suggested and choose "Save" but it reports it can't overwrite the existing file. So I save it to my desktop to try a replace drag and drop. Which it allows but when I open the OSInstall.dist file to confirm the replacement its the same old uneditted file I had before.

Whats going on here..it feels like Big Brother is watching me do this and undoing it.


As stated I saved the image as read/write but several of the sub folders were still marked as "read" when I hit command I for get info.

At one point I deleted the OSInstall.dist item from the image file all together. I closed the image file and reopened it to see if was actually gone. It was. But when I dragged the modified image file on my desktop back into the image...closed it , unmounted it, remounted it and looked at the OSINstall file it again had the offending bad machine code back in it. Like I said I can't explain it.

As an experiment I tried this on my ipod using it as a firewire drive. I used the instructions on the post listed above then dug into the OSINstall.dist file and tried to edit it. When I went to save it said it could not overwrite the file. So I dragged it to the trash...deleted it..emptied the trash. Unmounted the ipod...remounted the ipod and reopened the OSInstall.mpkg and sure enough the file was gone. I dragged a modified copy of the file into the OSINstall.mpkg, contents folder and opened it with text edit. Sure enough the previously deleted code is back in the script.

The mystery continues.....(hears the X files theme song)

Additional I tried loging in as the root user to see if that increased my abilities to edit the file. It was a "No Go".

Any ideas would be mucho appreciado..

Lerxst

[Captain Code]

You're not supposed to do this, you're supposed to buy the Tiger license for each computer or buy a family license. Locking thread.