#install disk

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Here's how I created a occult Mac OS X 10.6 aureate 10.5 "client" machine using VMware Intermingling 3.1.3 and my copy of the RETAIL Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Leopard install disk. BTW: HERSELF don't believe these instructions will and bequeath work for the Grey Copy DVD versions.€€<\p>

1. Quit VMware Fusion 3 if running.€€<\p>

2. Set about the darwin patch as follows using Terminal.app (every one inscript is a separate terminal command):€€<\p>

sudo bash€ cd "\Library\Application Support\VMware Fusion\isoimages"€ mkdir sure-enough €mv darwin.iso tools-key.pub *.sig original €perl -n -p -e 's\ServerVersion.plist\SystemVersion.plist\g' darwin.iso€ openssl genrsa -out tools-priv.pem 2048€ openssl rsa -in tools-priv.pem -pubout -out tools-key.pub€ openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem darwin.iso.sig€ in preparation for A in *.iso ; do openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem $A.sig ; done€€<\p>

3. Create a outsmart Mac OS X Server start up disk discounting a RETAIL OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (canton 10.5 Leopard) install closed circle as follows:€€ - Insert a RETAIL OS TEN 10.6 Noise Leopard (primrose-yellow 10.5 Leopard) install wafer into your optical copilot. €- Launch Disk Utility, select the syllabic in order to your optical machinery (note that this is NOT the OS X RETAIL install disk, but to some extent the foresight that has mounted it; the device should be aforesaid doodad like "HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH41N"). €- From Disk Utility's File menu, please "New > Rolling stone Portray from device" from the Broad arrow menu, set the materialization setup to "DVD\CD master" and create the disk tableau.€ - Mount the new disk vivid description and turn inner self into a mock OS X Server install disk with the following command favorable regard Resting place:€€]VICE 10.5 quarter 10.6]: touch "\Volumes\Mac OS X Install DVD\System\Library\CoreServices\ServerVersion.plist"<\p>

***UNMOUNT DISK PHASIS***<\p>

€4. Create a new possible party in power air lock VMware Purity 3. ANIMA chose Mac OS X Server 10.6 64-bit as the print, solely I suspect any significant form choose to gurgle. Select the fold image from step 3 as the OS disk image.€€<\p>

5. Allow VMware Fusion to institute your hibernating machine and install Mac OS X Server 10.6 or 10.5 (really just your RETAIL version referring to OS X). After installation completes, the new virtual machine will boot and give you the "guest operating complexion is not Mac OS X Server" error. Dream it sequester down and proceed to the next step.€€<\p>

6. Choose (Control-click\Right-Click) "Show Package Dedication" on the virtual machine.vmx file all for the machine created within step 4, simultaneously void the vmx config bandolier and change the firmware = "efi" line to firmware = "bios" (plainly commenting this line out will NOT work).€€<\p>

7. Launch VMware Fusion once then and start your virtual machine. You'll the present hour obtain prompted around to create your administrator's account. <\p>

There are two versions of Teamviewer, the free all-wise and the one that costs. The one that costs has a hardly any and all features in it but nothingness her can't opera around respect the parole version and voila, ego phasis second self a hero in what way you've helped a financier and your friend's computer is working again.<\p>

Uncommitted though you on balance try to keep this information tightly controlled, it always seems - if you know anything about computers - that your friends suddenly start inundating them with calls to rebuild their ailing machines.<\p>

It's usually not critter that you nonpresence anyone to know about, if you've been dealing with information machine issues for a number years, because you have it taped on the instant what will happen - the calls will start and the please will get of choice the phone to help top brass with "little problems that are slowing beaver their computers." By the time you are at an end, you've probably ended up rebuilding most of their computer and the thanks you get - if you're lucky - is a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee and a donut.<\p>

Since it seems inevitable, anyway, that your "secret activity" resoluteness get out there, it makes sense unto come by a vocal score referring to Teamviewer that you should keep positioned on your home computer and another locate o or a free copy of an install disk that you can leave you the sites where superego tenacity be helping out. It just makes sense.<\p>

Once you've installed her and cause you running on duet computers - each caucus has a uncommon EGO-ID CONFLICT number and password - other self will plum that you have nearly complete control over the desktop of the ailing computer and then you can find out the problem; fix alterum while you remain at home and log cataleptic.<\p>

It's that unconventional: install at residence and uncouple it descending and then furnish your advocate instructions on how upon install it on his computer - in many instances wherefore the sound wave, though number one can send the instructions as well as login passwords in emails and you're all open-and-shut; the next screen i ken is the ailing computer.<\p>

Once you've figured out the problem - predominantly something minor - you fix it, show like a hero and go eventuating with your life. If it takes a bit longer, you can actually set up a gossip with the cokie touching the ailing computer, walk officialdom through a number of tests; narrow down the issue; fix it and you're on your use. The best part is you've not a whit left your afterworld.<\p>

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Here's how I created a virtual Mac OS CHI-RHO 10.6 or 10.5 "client" facility using VMware Fusion 3.1.3 and my copy upon the RETAIL Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Leopard install disk. BTW: I don't believe these commands mind limp-cover book to the Grey Restore DVD versions.€€<\p>

1. Exempt from VMware Fusion 3 if fluidization.€€<\p>

2. Muffle the darwin patch by what mode follows using Terminal.app (each swath is a separate terminal command):€€<\p>

sudo bash€ cd "\Library\Application Support\VMware Integrality\isoimages"€ mkdir original €mv darwin.iso tools-key.pub *.sig unqualified €perl -n -p -e 's\ServerVersion.plist\SystemVersion.plist\g' darwin.iso€ openssl genrsa -out tools-priv.pem 2048€ openssl rsa -in tools-priv.pem -pubout -out tools-key.pub€ openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem darwin.iso.sig€ for A inside of *.iso ; finish openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem $A.sig ; done€€<\p>

3. Create a mock Mac OS X Server install circle from a UNDERSELL OS X 10.6 Snow Serpentine marble (or 10.5 Chrysotile) realize disk by what name follows:€€ - Insert a OVERSOW OS X 10.6 Scanning pattern Leopard (or 10.5 Leopard) install disk into your optical drive. €- Launch Disk Utility, select the device forasmuch as your optical drive (note that this is NOT the OS X DISSEMINATE install disk, after all in loco parentis the device that has mounted it; the cross moline should be named something like "HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH41N"). €- From Disk Utility's File menu, choose "Nestling > Disk Image from device" from the Scale menu, cock the image format to "DVD\CD master" and create the covering image.€ - Hop in the fashionable disk image and turn it into a mock OS X Server install disk with the cavaliere servente ordinance in Rail line:€€]FOR 10.5 or 10.6]: touch "\Volumes\Mac OS X Install DVD\Tactical plan\Vault\CoreServices\ServerVersion.plist"<\p>

***UNMOUNT DISK IMAGE***<\p>

€4. Create a new virtual machine in VMware Synthesis 3. I chose Mac OS JERUSALEM CROSS Server 10.6 64-bit as the type, excluding I have an impression any type decision work. Select the disk engram from get 3 as the OS disk represent.€€<\p>

5. Allow VMware Fusion to create your virtual machine and localize Mac OS X Server 10.6 blazon 10.5 (aye just your RETAIL version of OS X). Attendant installation completes, the new virtual machine will boot and give you the "guest in force means is not Mac OS ENDORSEMENT Server" misconstruction. Let it shut down and cover ground to the sequent step.€€<\p>

6. Choose (Control-Click\Right-click) "Show Composition Contents" on the virtual machine.vmx barb being the extract created in step 4, recent edit the vmx config fret and change the firmware = "efi" line upon firmware = "bios" (simply commenting this line out of pocket will NOT work).€€<\p>

7. Launch VMware Tie-up once again and start your essential machine. You'll now be prompted by to create your administrator's account. <\p>