Happiness...
So what worked for me.
The initial issue was the formatting of my USB flash drive that some how was not GUID an option I should have selected in the formatting process to begin with. See here
Since somehow I did not, the installation with that USB Flash drive failed in spit of following all the instructions here
As one thing lead to another, given that failure, I tried to do the coding of the pkg manually. I crashed my initial installation of OS X 10.5 Leopard. My Mac froze several times. I had to remove and push back the PRAM battery to get it unfrozen. The Mac came back but the OS would not recuperate and it showed the "?" folder.
I tried to edit the OSInstall.mpkg. For that I had to find Flat Package Editor which I could not find in the Xcode package I downloaded from Apple.
Trying to install Mavericks on a working HD also had the challenge of the file Boot.efi being locked and I could not just simply unlock it.
I used the Terminal in
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
After pounding my had for several days I was able, first, to do a clean install of OSX 10.7.5 Lion I got at the App store. I used Disk Maker X As the simple installation following Apple directions did not work. I upgraded the Mac by replacing the chips to quad core Xeon 5355 [$35.00 at ebay] and added RAM to populate the whole 16GB memory bank.
I then downloaded Mavericks installation pkg and installed it on another empty formatted HD using SOFTT I kept the OSX Lionas a back up.
This process was almost embarrassing in how easy it was at the end.
I probably would have still be pounding my had had it had not been for the gracious help I got here from Sko Thank you my friend!
Ted
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So what worked for me.
The initial issue was the formatting of my USB flash drive that some how was not GUID an option I should have selected in the formatting process to begin with. See here
Since somehow I did not, the installation with that USB Flash drive failed in spit of following all the instructions here
As one thing lead to another, given that failure, I tried to do the coding of the pkg manually. I crashed my initial installation of OS X 10.5 Leopard. My Mac froze several times. I had to remove and push back the PRAM battery to get it unfrozen. The Mac came back but the OS would not recuperate and it showed the "?" folder.
I tried to edit the OSInstall.mpkg. For that I had to find Flat Package Editor which I could not find in the Xcode package I downloaded from Apple.
Trying to install Mavericks on a working HD also had the challenge of the file Boot.efi being locked and I could not just simply unlock it.
I used the Terminal in
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
After pounding my had for several days I was able, first, to do a clean install of OSX 10.7.5 Lion I got at the App store. I used Disk Maker X As the simple installation following Apple directions did not work. I upgraded the Mac by replacing the chips to quad core Xeon 5355 [$35.00 at ebay] and added RAM to populate the whole 16GB memory bank.
I then downloaded Mavericks installation pkg and installed it on another empty formatted HD using SOFTT I kept the OSX Lionas a back up.
This process was almost embarrassing in how easy it was at the end.
I probably would have still be pounding my had had it had not been for the gracious help I got here from Sko Thank you my friend!
Ted
