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This script can create disk images containing macOS Installer applications available via Apple's softwareupdate catalogs.
It does this by downloading the packages from Apple's softwareupdate servers and then installing them into a new empty disk image.
Run `./installinstallmacos.py --help` to see the available options.
The tool assembles "Install macOS" applications by downloading the packages from Apple's softwareupdate servers and then installing them into a new empty disk image.
If `/usr/bin/installer` returns errors during this process, it can be useful to examine `/var/log/install.log` for clues.
Since it is using Apple's installer, any install check or volume check scripts are run. This means that you can only use this tool to create a diskimage containing the versions of macOS that will run on the exact machine you are running the script on.
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Use a compatible Mac or select a different build compatible with your current hardware and try again. You may also have success running the script in a VM; the InstallationCheck script in versions of the macOS installer to date skips the checks (and returns success) when run on a VM.
Run `./installinstallmacos.py --help` to see the available options.
#### make_firmwareupdater_pkg.sh
This script was used to extract the firmware updaters from early High Sierra installers and make a standalone installer package that could be used to upgrade Mac firmware before installing High Sierra via imaging.