MOL reports "File is too large. Failed to load mkext!" with MacOSX 10.3.7

[Matthew Denner]

On 7/5/05, Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler at gmx.de> wrote:
> If you found something, it should be in one of those packages. There
> should be a directory structure in each of them, look at Contents/
> Resources of your package. There might be a file called
> InstallationCheck which is run by the installer in order to determine
> whether the package can be installed. If you are lucky it is a shell
> script, so you can read and try to find out what is going on.

You might be onto something here: I found that there is a file
System/Installation/Packages/Bundled Software.mpkg/Contents/Info.plist
that contains a 'requires' entry (the file is XML) which seems to be
for the 'hw.model', and in there it lists PowerBook5,1 through to
Powerbook5,7.  Similarly there are a couple of others for AppleWorks
Languages, and CPU Help Files, which also need these processors.

I tried changing the mol/0.9.71/oftrees/oftree.x file so that it had
these processor strings list in 'compatible' and 'model' but for each
of them MOL crashes (well, it looks like its the OSX boot from the CD
as it's inside the MOL window) but I can't see anything because it's
obscured.

> Well, I didn't try this with an installation CD, but maybe it gives
> you some hints.

Hmm, maybe I can dd the entire OSX install CD as a file, edit the
'requires' and retry installing that ...

> Another workaround would probably be to install OS X natively onto a
> small harddisk partition and then use that for MOL or to transfer it
> to an image file after that.

Unfortunately I'm using all of the harddisk space for Gentoo!

Matt