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Re: *.dmg file too big



At 3:50 PM -0700 9/20/06, Peter Bierman wrote:
At 5:24 PM -0400 9/20/06, Dan Shoop wrote:
At 4:08 PM -0400 9/20/06, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote:
* Dan Shoop [2006/09/20 03:46 PM -0400] wrote:
 Well then you can just leave the dmg as a dmg and just mount it with
 hdid (etc) as well too. That is you don't have to expand the dmg's
 onto disk.

... but you can't boot from a mounted .dmg ...

You can just install the packages from the mounted dmg. They're in System/Installation/Packages.

No. Do Not Do That. It will Not work correctly.

The latest OS Install packages are designed to use features in the latest Installer. If you try to install them using a version of the Installer older than they are, they may fail in subtle ways.

Noted. --

-dhan

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