~pcwiz Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Hi everyone, Sabr gave me this excellent idea of creating an OSx86 Tools Suite for simplifying and automating common tasks. So I am fresh out of ideas, so I would like the community to give me some suggestions. Of course if this suite gets made, my kernel installer will be one of the tools What are those things that you find yourself mucking with the Terminal for or that you constantly do and need to be automated? As long as it is general, and not for a specific piece of hardware, any suggestions are accepted! Suggestion booths are now open Progress gabe (Shutdown Restart Utility) - Done pehy (Backup/Restore Utility) - Done SticMAN - That is proving to be kind of hard, but I'm still working on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pehy Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 1. A tool to setup a bootloader, on a disk with OS yet installed or not. 2. A tool to backup important directories (Extensions....) and to recover all or part of files of that directory. 3. Or a tool that detects changes in our files while applying a new patch. Good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Number 2 should be pretty easy, I'll work on it 1 and 3 might be somewhat harder but I'll look into them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabe_ Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 It is my understanding that: shutdown -h now and shutdown -hr now Will work to shutdown, and restart systems for people who are not fortunate enough to be able to do so via the GUI... If this is true, a simple shutdown / restart app could come in handy for those folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software Updater Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Well an app that I have found so usefull is Onyx and MacPilot Onyx: http://www.titanium.free.fr/index_us.html MacPilot: http://www.koingosw.com/products/macpilot.php Onyx is free while MacPilot is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDRacer48 Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 PCWiz, No matter what you make, please put it in a place that is easy for everyone to attain it and find info about it. (i.e. a sticky, highlighted bold on the wiki, the very top and front of your website with a thread sticked to it). Make sure you include documentation that will help even the newest OSx86 explorer know how to use it and more importantly why they are using it. That is the biggest problem with the OSx86 project in my opinion. So much stuff gets worked on and abandoned in such a hectic pace that you pretty much have to do a research paper to get started. None of the information is centralized in one place (like the wiki). I mean, I still do not know what kernel is the latest, or netkas's efi stuff, or a ton of other things just because I felt it was too much work when I already have a great running OSx86 install. Get what I mean??? Cody keep on macKIN' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 A kext installer!! It must let one choose the target drive to install to! not just the current drive! SticMAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 gabe_ I'll get working on that One question, what is the command to restart? sdracer48, I'll make sure to think about that when placing this SticMAN, I'll get working on it right now, should be easy! EDIT: gabe, I'm making progress, its pretty easy SticMAN, its harder than I thought (with my very limited knowledge of programming). EDIT2: gabe, finished your utility. I'm not going to release it in public yet but I'll send you a copy of it if you would like EDIT3: pehy, I'm pretty much done your utility. Testing it now. What it does is it backs up the kernel and extensions from a specified driver into a specified folder. Then it also has a Restore wizard where you specify the drive to restore to and the location of the back up and it restores it! Just testing it out now, I'll send you a PM when its done EDIT4: Its done pehy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefinalprophecy Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 it'd be cool if there was a way to restore those backups from single user mode command prompt in case you can't boot into the os installation. i guess if you specify the location of the backup then it would be pretty easy if you know the basic cp -R commands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 - Possibility to use the cached kexts from the install DVD that seem to be compatible with a whole wide array of systems. Is it possible to extract those working kexts from the cached kexts of the install DVD for regular use? - Possibility to introduce bootup/shutdown scripts a bit like login-window-manager does, for example remove the kext cache automatically upon shutdown if the cached version keeps on not loading all kexts properly at bootup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmedude Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 A "Make it work NOW" button would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabe_ Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 A "Make it work NOW" button would be nice. Staples has those: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 15, 2008 Author Share Posted March 15, 2008 thefinalprophecy, That would be possible using a shell script I believe WARK, What do you mean by cached kexts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayfarer247 Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I know there is the Disk Utility, but for some of the newer folk (and more lazy) I think a Permission fixer would be nice. One of those "One Button Fix All!" Applications, so newbies can just have it run and their permissions would all be fixed for them. If you think the Disk Util is easy enough, that is fine, but the repairing permissions was the only thing that I didn't understand in OS X. Just my thought!! Keep i up PCwiz, you're doing great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 19, 2008 Author Share Posted March 19, 2008 That would be very very easy to do Wayfarer. One button app that: - Repairs permissions - Clears kext cache I could do it. Anything else you want it to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Why not put all the apps into one big "OSx86 Remote"? Much like Onyx - it has all the features/tools in one app. Definitely will make it easier for everyone to find, use (as everything is in one place), and would probably generate more interest (because of the aforementioned points). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuhkaX Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 PC to elaborate a little on Wayfarer's idea, the ability to fix the permissions on maybe just one kext. For example you edit info.plist, then you just need to fix the perms on that 1 kext and empty the cache instead of having to fix all the kexts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 19, 2008 Author Share Posted March 19, 2008 Sabr, I would like to do it, but I believe the only way to do that would be to use Xcode and Interface Builder which I am not at all familiar with. I'll try anyway though. NuhkaX, I don't think I could do something like that with AppleScript, but there might be a way to sort of "scan" the contents of the Extensions folder and display them in a drop down list. I'll have a look at that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurits Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 A tool that automatic repairs disk permission on restart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 Maurits, That would be easy to do with a AppleScript. Make a AppleScript in script editor with the following contents: do shell script "diskutil repairPermissions /" And File >> Save As >> choose application bundle as the type and save. And then in System Preferences in the users panel set that application to run at startup, should work fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napster Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 How about a tool which is kind of... noticing whenever kernel has been replaced, to prevent unfortunate bricking hacked Mac install from Software Update??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maclinux Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 You're still working on this? It sounds very promising... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 I haven't been active with it as of late, but its still alive no questions about that I'll get to your requests when I have time :censored2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maclinux Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Take your time. Was just wondering, and I'm sure we all appreciate your effort. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurits Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Maurits, That would be easy to do with a AppleScript. Make a AppleScript in script editor with the following contents: do shell script "diskutil repairPermissions /" And File >> Save As >> choose application bundle as the type and save. And then in System Preferences in the users panel set that application to run at startup, should work fine Thanks man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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