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meyer / osx-software-update-urls.md
Last active October 17, 2025 15:38 — forked from homebysix/osx-software-update-urls.txt
URLs of the index files used by the software update client on OS X
@agentsim
agentsim / highsierra_bootable.sh
Created June 10, 2017 02:23
Create bootable ISO from HighSierra Installer
# Generate a BaseSystem.dmg with 10.13 Install Packages
hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ macOS\ 10.13\ Beta.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/highsierra
hdiutil create -o /tmp/HighSierraBase.cdr -size 7316m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J
hdiutil attach /tmp/HighSierraBase.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build
asr restore -source /Applications/Install\ macOS\ 10.13\ Beta.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_build -noprompt -noverify -erase
cp -R /Volumes/highsierra/Packages /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation
hdiutil detach /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/
hdiutil detach /Volumes/highsierra/
mv /tmp/HighSierraBase.cdr.dmg /tmp/BaseSystem.dmg
@jrop
jrop / .profile
Created October 20, 2016 18:02
Command not found
#!/bin/bash
prompt="$(PS1="$PS1" echo -n | bash --norc -i 2>&1)";
while [ true ]; do
echo -n "${prompt%exit}";
read line;
echo "-bash: $line: command not found";
done
@calvinbui
calvinbui / OS X macOS Install ISO Creator
Last active May 26, 2025 04:59
#!/bin/bash
################################
# OS X Install ISO Creater #
# #
# Author: shela #
################################
#######################################
# Declarations
@julianxhokaxhiu
julianxhokaxhiu / create-iso.sh
Created September 24, 2016 21:46
Simple bash script to create a Bootable ISO from macOS Sierra Install Image from Mac App Store
#!/bin/bash
#
# Credits to fuckbecauseican5 from https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/4s561a/macos_sierra_16a238m_install_success_and_guide/
# Adapted to work with the official image available into Mac App Store
#
# Enjoy!
hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_app
hdiutil create -o /tmp/Sierra.cdr -size 7316m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J
hdiutil attach /tmp/Sierra.cdr.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build
@androindep
androindep / DS-MDT-Guide.md
Last active March 11, 2020 16:54
Deploying BootCamp with DeployStudio & MDT/LiteTouch

#Deploying BootCamp with DeployStudio & MDT/LiteTouch

So, you have a Windows Deployment Server and you'd like to use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to image your Windows partitions on your dual-boot Macs.

Over the years--judging by the date of some of the posts I've seen on the topic--it seems that using MDT or SCCM to install BootCamp on a Mac en masse was more common in the past than it is now. Several folks cite their LiteTouch Task Sequences failing with this error or that ever since they upgraded from 2010 to something more modern.

There are other deployment tools out there for putting Windows on a Mac, but few are as flexible and modular as MDT--and things get even trickier in some ways with newer Macs that don't support Legacy booting, as their boot information is written to the EFI partition.

Using Windows-based installation tools ensures that the proper boot information gets written right the first time in the way Microsoft intended, no matter whether you are imaging a Legacy or UEFI-style instal

@homebysix
homebysix / osx-software-update-urls.txt
Last active February 13, 2025 15:18 — forked from geoff-nixon/osx-software-update-urls.txt
URLs of the index files used by the software update client on OS X
10.3 (Panther):
https://swscan.apple.com/scanningpoints/scanningpointX.xml
10.4 (Tiger):
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/index.sucatalog
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/index-1.sucatalog
10.5 (Leopard):
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
@CMCDragonkai
CMCDragonkai / job_control_zsh_bash.md
Last active July 9, 2025 12:52
CLI: Job Control in ZSH and Bash

Job Control in ZSH and Bash

All processes in ZSH/Bash under job control are in 3 states: foregrounded, backgrounded and suspended.

# run command in the foreground
command
# run commend in the background
@robinsmidsrod
robinsmidsrod / sysrcd.ipxe
Last active February 19, 2025 09:06
SystemRescueCD iPXE menu script and monkeypatch for preloading sysrcd.dat with iPXE instead of loading from local storage
#!ipxe
set sysrcd-version 4.7.1
echo Booting SystemRescueCD ${sysrcd-version} x86 for ${initiator-iqn}
# Kernel command-line options are documented here:
# http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Booting_the_CD-ROM#Network_boot_using_PXE
set base-url sysrcd-${sysrcd-version}-x86/
kernel ${base-url}isolinux/altker${archs} setkmap=no net.ifnames=0 backstore=off
initrd ${base-url}isolinux/initram.igz
initrd ${base-url}sysrcd.dat /sysrcd.dat
# Load the ramdisk again as a file inside the ramdisk, so our custom init script
@0xbb
0xbb / README.md
Last active August 3, 2025 16:19
Macbook Pro 11,3 - Linux - AppleMuxControl reverse engineering