A Leopard Fix Is Coming

Sunday, June 8th, 2008 » ,

For anyone who has recently attempted to create an install of Leopard on your flash drive á la this tutorial I posted back in November of 2006, you may have noticed that two of the package receipts required to get the system running, namely BaseSystem.pkg and Essentials.pkg, have disappeared from the /Library/Receipts folder in the latest version of Leopard. In my quick searching, I could not find either of those two package receipts anywhere on the system.

Due to it being the end of Spring Quarter here at UC Santa Cruz, I have not been able to devote time to search and hopefully find the answer. However, my last final is on Wednesday morning, and the first task on my list of summer projects is to get the instructions updated for Leopard. I hope to find a solution on Wednesday and get the new guide up by Thursday. I’ll be twittering the entire install process, so follow me if you want in on the fun.

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4 Responses to “A Leopard Fix Is Coming”

  1. Dave on June 13th, 2008

    Brad…I’m trying to get a barebones, minimal Leopard install on my 4GB Cruzer flash drive…if you manage to figure it out, please let me know! :) I’d like to have a repair thumb drive in my bag with Leopard and some basic repair apps, nothing fancy (don’t need iLife or any other crap…).

  2. Kenneth on July 28th, 2008

    Please, Brad … please get the Leopard fix to us soon … it’s needed badly!

    Thank you!

    Kenneth

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  4. Dave on September 13th, 2008

    Any update on this, Brad? Still would love to get it to boot from my 4 GB thumb drive…currently seems to get stuck trying to load the Setup Assistant.

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