- Before it gets forgotten
- Sunday, January 10, 2016
- How to fix Unibeast’s «Selected Mac OS X Installer is Incomplete» error
- 44 comments:
- Fix/solution for «Selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete»
- toro86
- UniBeast — Setup Issue — OS X Installer is Incomplete
- vinnyamp
- P1LGRIM
- vinnyamp
- P1LGRIM
- vinnyamp
- P1LGRIM
- pragman86
- Fix/solution for «Selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete»
- stormdown
- FlorianA89
- FlorianA89
- HypeLevels
- oneof4
- HBenengeli
- HBenengeli
- Fix/solution for «Selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete»
- coove
- Gemvou
- exquirentibus
- How to Download a Full Size MacOS Mojave Installer
Before it gets forgotten
My experience with computers. Might be useful to someone.
Sunday, January 10, 2016
How to fix Unibeast’s «Selected Mac OS X Installer is Incomplete» error
44 comments:
This is an excellent post!
I replaced a single byte with this command:
printf ‘\x90’ | dd of=UniBeast.app/Contents/MacOS/UniBeast seek=12898 bs=1 conv=notrunc
Now I can create the installer usb by creating a directory (‘/Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport’) and copying the Yosemite InstallESD.dmg there.
What is the ‘jump if zero’ offset for Unibeast 5.2.0 so I can use chimera?
^^ Wow. That’s a nice way to patch it.
Unfortunately I have removed the OSX installation from my PC. But I’ll try to check 5.2.0 soon. Thanks for your input.
X-tremly helpful. Thank You!
This was a lifesaver. Thank you so much
bloody brilliant indeed, thanks a ton for posting this
I finally figured out how to patch Unibeast 5.2.0, so now I can use Chimera with my older PC.
This works the same as the above method and you only need one InstallESD.dmg file in the proper directory. The offset is 2ca1 (hex) or 11425 (decimal). I tried replacing the JE with a NOP, but Unibeast crashes. So I tried replacing it with a JNE and it worked!
printf ‘\x75’ | dd of=UniBeast.app/Contents/MacOS/UniBeast seek=$((0x2ca1)) bs=1 conv=notrunc
Nice work. Thanks for sharing your experience.
You are a lifesaver! I have old hardware that an OS newer than Lion won’t work on (including the «early 2008» MacBook I’m typing this on, also stuck on Lion). UniBeast 5.2.0 is the last one to support Lion. Apple seems to no longer let people buy Lion in the App Store, but instead only through some strange checkout process that involves «1-2 days» processing time to SEND A LINK in email (like some shady eBay seller). I DID shell out the cash to Apple for it, but got tired of waiting. This patch finally made it accept my patched installer .app. ultimate hooray!
Really hate how Apple throws away good, old hardware by making it entirely unsupportable.
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Fix/solution for «Selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete»
toro86
A real solution for those who get stuck at STEP 1.
Seeing no real solutions offered here on the forums, other then seeing users getting pushed to look at the troubleshooting guide for UniBeast 8 and then coming back empty handed because they are stuck at:
The troubleshooting guide won’t supply users with a fix and users getting all over forums pushed back to the guide.
The fine install guide tells you in step 1:
STEP 1: Download macOS High Sierra
The full operating system is a free download for anyone who has purchased Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion or has a Mac preloaded with OS X Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, or macOS Sierra. Download the Application from the Mac App Store using your Apple ID on any Mac or functional computer running OS X 10.7.5 or later.
1. Open Mac App Store
2. Log in with your Apple ID
3. Download macOS High Sierra
The Application Install macOS High Sierra will appear in /Applications.
And then you windup with an installer thats 19MB in /Applications.
Then you start UniBeast and it says «Selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete«.
If this is you then you can fix this by doing the following:
You will need to recreate the full installer from the separate parts.
To do so we will use the installer stub app to grab all the files from Apple and then abort the install before it does anything else.
Run the 19MB stub installer (/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra).
Choose the install disk and click ‘install’ (it won’t actually install yet!).
It will download the remaining install files and place them under /macOS Install Data (i.e. look for the folder in the root of your hard drive ‘Macintosh HD’).
When it has finished downloading all it needs, the installer screen will then ask you to restart the Mac – but don’t! At this point ABORT the install by quitting the installer app.
Next we will recreate the full installer from all the downloaded parts. This will restore the ability to create an install media USB.
Do the following:
Open Terminal and run: sudo -s
Enter admin credentials to gain root permissions.
Then copy and paste the following 3 commands:
mkdir /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport
cd /macOS\ Install\ Data
find . -mount | cpio -pvdm /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport
You now have a full installer package in your Applications folder!
Now goto STEP 2: Create a Bootable USB Drive with UniBeast to continue the install guide.
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UniBeast — Setup Issue — OS X Installer is Incomplete
vinnyamp
Well, I’m trying to make a bootable usb of a Mavericks Installation, but I can’t, when i select Mavericks on UniBeast, and hit continue, I get this error message:
Selected Mac OS X Installer is Incomplete
Your selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete. Please delete all copies of the installer from all mounted volumes and redownload it again from the Mac App Store.
I never downloaded anything from the Apple Store, because i don’t have internet working on my actual Hackintosh.
any tip of how to fix this issue and proceed with the installation ?
P1LGRIM
Moderator
Well, I’m trying to make a bootable usb of a Mavericks Installation, but I can’t, when i select Mavericks on UniBeast, and hit continue, I get this error message:
Selected Mac OS X Installer is Incomplete
Your selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete. Please delete all copies of the installer from all mounted volumes and redownload it again from the Mac App Store.
I never downloaded anything from the Apple Store, because i don’t have internet working on my actual Hackintosh.
any tip of how to fix this issue and proceed with the installation ?
vinnyamp
P1LGRIM
Moderator
From the App Store ?
Sometimes the Install App shows as incomplete after it has been moved.
vinnyamp
From the App Store ?
Sometimes the Install App shows as incomplete after it has been moved.
P1LGRIM
Moderator
Can you make the USB Unibeast installer on your brother’s Mac ?
pragman86
Well, I’m trying to make a bootable usb of a Mavericks Installation, but I can’t, when i select Mavericks on UniBeast, and hit continue, I get this error message:
Selected Mac OS X Installer is Incomplete
Your selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete. Please delete all copies of the installer from all mounted volumes and redownload it again from the Mac App Store.
I never downloaded anything from the Apple Store, because i don’t have internet working on my actual Hackintosh.
any tip of how to fix this issue and proceed with the installation ?
Hi. I had this issue. Try copying the Maverick installer to Applications. This worked for me.
Cheers.
[Edit] Sorry, you already mentioned it. Sorry. [/Edit]
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Fix/solution for «Selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete»
stormdown
Here is the full Instructions summed up.
1) Download the stub High Sierra Installer from App Store.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?mt=12
2) Run the installer, select the volume to install to (To make sure that there will be no data loss make a new volume
25GB and select that as the volume to install to.) and select install,
It will now download all the files to the volume selected.
3) After downloading, it will automatically reboot in 30s. Make sure to quit the installer when the countdown starts. VERY IMPORTANT.
To Quit, Right Click the Installer’s icon on the dock and select Quit
The files will be downloaded to the Volume you selected.
4) Open terminal and run the commands in order
5)
This will take a few minutes (Longer on older hardware). You’ll get «unable to set flags» error at the end. Ignore that. (My guess is that as these are install files, some of the files have no flags at all triggerig the error.)
10) Press Ctrl + D to exit from super user.
Now Text Editor will open with the file to be edited.
15)Search for InstallESDDmg.pkg. You’ll get to a section like this. There may be small differences so don’t just copy paste the entire code block.
Remove the 4 lines below the » InstallESDDmg.pkg » line.
Replace InstallESDDmg.pkg with InstallESD.dmg
Replace com.apple.pkg.InstallESDDmg with com.apple.pkg.InstallESD
Now it will look like this (there may be differneces especially in the last line. ie version)
Now you have a working Full Installer.
For Mojave steps seem to be the same just replace High Sierra with Mojave. And delete a file named incompatibleapps.pkg.
You can create an install media DMG,bootable USB or ISO.
Make an ISO for VMs.
Do the hackintosh steps to get ito to boot for hackintoshing.
You can now use it with clover or multibeast.
Alternatively you can use the macadmin-scripts to make the full installer. The follow the hackintosh steps.
FlorianA89
EDIT: Solved the Problem!
hi guys. is there a way to do it with Sierra? ( 10.12.6 ) ?
get stuck on creating the usb drive with unibeast.
Selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete
Many thanks!
FlorianA89
EDIT: Solved the Problem!
I have a macbook pro with Catalina on it but it’s not possible to create the full installer for Sierra.
Would be great if someone could help me out here!
HypeLevels
There is something I want to mention. In this support document : https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201372
It is mentioned under «Download macOS from the App Store» that :
So if we attempt to download MacOS High Sierra from a Mac or hackintosh that is not running El Capitan 10.11.6 / Sierra 10.12.5 or 10.12.6 / High Sierra, then all we get will be the 19MB file. Like I tried on my Mac mini 2012 Server running Mavericks. I tried repeatedly and could only get the small file and not the full installer. Now I understand why.
oneof4
HBenengeli
Uh oh. Got stuck part way in Terminal. For some reason it says for macOS Install Data that «No such file or directory» exists. It does exist, I can see the folder on Finder. I’m a noob at command prompts, so not sure what I did wrong, but I’m assuming it’s something basic and dumb.
This is being done on an already hacked machine, currently running Mavericks (10.9.5), upgrading to Mojave.
I’m following stormdown’s sum-up, post 111, and named the volume where I downloaded the full installer «MacOS_Mojave». Here’s my terminal:
Help help? I’m afraid to shut my computer down now without reverting to a backup!
HBenengeli
Read back through the whole thread. again. BruceLee5000 had the answer.
I didn’t want to risk my boot disk, so I chose a secondary disk for the install target.
It created the directory «/macOS Install Data» on the root of my secondary hard drive. The script won’t work as presented if the «macOS Install Data» folder is not in the root level of your boot disk. So I copied it there so I wouldn’t have to type different volume names in Terminal.
I had been using stormdown’s summary and, like them, was trying to mount the volume where I had ‘safely’ downloaded the full installer. But either because I wasn’t doing it right or because I’m on Mavericks or — like BruceLee5000 said — the package wasn’t at root of the boot, it would not see the Install Data folder. Period.
Copied the whole thing to my boot root, suddenly all the Terminal commands worked. Unibeast sees it, at least.
Now I just have to sort out this whole APFS thing and maybe I can finally get this machine working!
Guess I don’t. Mods aware that the Guides quicklink at the bottom of the page for 10.13 links to the High Sierra update guide, not the full install like other guides?
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Fix/solution for «Selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete»
coove
A real solution for those who get stuck at STEP 1.
Seeing no real solutions offered here on the forums, other then seeing users getting pushed to look at the troubleshooting guide for UniBeast 8 and then coming back empty handed because they are stuck at:
The troubleshooting guide won’t supply users with a fix and users getting all over forums pushed back to the guide.
The fine install guide tells you in step 1:
And then you windup with an installer thats 19MB in /Applications.
Then you start UniBeast and it says «Selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete«.
If this is you then you can fix this by doing the following:
You will need to recreate the full installer from the separate parts.
To do so we will use the installer stub app to grab all the files from Apple and then abort the install before it does anything else.
Run the 19MB stub installer (/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra).
Choose the install disk and click ‘install’ (it won’t actually install yet!).
It will download the remaining install files and place them under /macOS Install Data (i.e. look for the folder in the root of your hard drive ‘Macintosh HD’).
When it has finished downloading all it needs, the installer screen will then ask you to restart the Mac – but don’t! At this point ABORT the install by quitting the installer app.
Next we will recreate the full installer from all the downloaded parts. This will restore the ability to create an install media USB.
Do the following:
Open Terminal and run: sudo -s
Enter admin credentials to gain root permissions.
Then copy and paste the following 3 commands:
mkdir /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport
cd /macOS\ Install\ Data
find . -mount | cpio -pvdm /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport
You now have a full installer package in your Applications folder!
Now goto STEP 2: Create a Bootable USB Drive with UniBeast to continue the install guide.
There is something I want to mention. In this support document : https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201372
It is mentioned under «Download macOS from the App Store» that :
So if we attempt to download MacOS High Sierra from a Mac or hackintosh that is not running El Capitan 10.11.6 / Sierra 10.12.5 or 10.12.6 / High Sierra, then all we get will be the 19MB file. Like I tried on my Mac mini 2012 Server running Mavericks. I tried repeatedly and could only get the small file and not the full installer. Now I understand why.
so ive done this and It says for the last several lines it says locked files. figured it was nothing and went along started installing on the pc and it says «could not find resources.» is there something im doing wrong?
/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./InstallInfo.plist
/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files
/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files/.disk_label
/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files/.disk_label.contentDetails
/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files/.disk_label_2x
/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files/Boot Files
/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files/cleanup_installer
cpio: Failed to set file flags
edit the install file still turned out to be 5.23 gigs
A real solution for those who get stuck at STEP 1.
Seeing no real solutions offered here on the forums, other then seeing users getting pushed to look at the troubleshooting guide for UniBeast 8 and then coming back empty handed because they are stuck at:
The troubleshooting guide won’t supply users with a fix and users getting all over forums pushed back to the guide.
The fine install guide tells you in step 1:
And then you windup with an installer thats 19MB in /Applications.
Then you start UniBeast and it says «Selected Mac OS X Installer is incomplete«.
If this is you then you can fix this by doing the following:
You will need to recreate the full installer from the separate parts.
To do so we will use the installer stub app to grab all the files from Apple and then abort the install before it does anything else.
Run the 19MB stub installer (/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra).
Choose the install disk and click ‘install’ (it won’t actually install yet!).
It will download the remaining install files and place them under /macOS Install Data (i.e. look for the folder in the root of your hard drive ‘Macintosh HD’).
When it has finished downloading all it needs, the installer screen will then ask you to restart the Mac – but don’t! At this point ABORT the install by quitting the installer app.
Next we will recreate the full installer from all the downloaded parts. This will restore the ability to create an install media USB.
Do the following:
Open Terminal and run: sudo -s
Enter admin credentials to gain root permissions.
Then copy and paste the following 3 commands:
mkdir /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport
cd /macOS\ Install\ Data
find . -mount | cpio -pvdm /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport
You now have a full installer package in your Applications folder!
Now goto STEP 2: Create a Bootable USB Drive with UniBeast to continue the install guide.
Gemvou
exquirentibus
mkdir /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport
cd /macOS\ Install\ Data
find . -mount | cpio -pvdm /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport
I’m having trouble creating the Mojave install using those commands with my Sierra 10.12.6.
After downloading the 10.14.6 «full install» of 22.7 MB (obviously just a loader file), I followed the instructions for the 2nd method to create the Real full install from this link (which matches your instructions exactly):
How to Download a Full Size MacOS Mojave Installer
I saw that the 6GB install was indeed broken into smaller files located at «MacOS Install Data» at the root of my HD.
I used terminal as follows:
myName$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# mkdir /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport
bash-3.2# cd /macOS\ Install\ Data
bash-3.2# find . -mount | cpio -pvdm /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/.
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./AppleDiagnostics.chunklist
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./AppleDiagnostics.dmg
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./BaseSystem.chunklist
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./BaseSystem.dmg
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./index.sproduct
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./InstallESDDmg.pkg
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./InstallInfo.plist
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files/.disk_label
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files/.disk_label.contentDetails
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files/.disk_label_2x
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files/Boot Files
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./Locked Files/cleanup_installer
/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/SharedSupport/./OSX_10_14_IncompatibleAppList.pkg
11774129 blocks
bash-3.2#
Unfortunately, it didn’t create the full install. i didn’t notice that it created anything, but I don’t see any errors above?
What obvious, stupid mistake am I making?
I realize there are downloader apps from helpful folks such as Dosdude, but I’d prefer to use as few tools as possible.
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