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Yeah I forgot to mention that this might not even be considered an issue for most people but to me it is extremely drawn out. Especially since I have to do it so frequently and if it could be simplified into a single Terminal command or at the least, a single disk image instead of needing to create a sparse and then a dmg afterwards. Thanks for the suggestions though. I've considered a script and Automator both for at least making the process smoother but the purpose of the thread is to see if anyone else has a cleaner, more updated method and not so much to automate my own.

That's actually the thing. I can't simply uncheck anything. The annoying files are the ones that OS X auto generates on it's own usually. Such as .fseventsd and .Trashes mostly. Deleting them from Terminal works great but once the image is remounted, they usually respawn. They aren't a huge deal though, like I said I know how to deal with them. Maybe I should remove that part from the post. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions again, I always appreciate any and all assistance I can get.

Let me start by apologizing for replying to this so very late. I hate replying to such an old thread and reopening it like this (forgive me mods) but there is a reason for it. The truth is I spent somewhere close to a full 2 weeks doing nothing but working on this project. It basically consumed my life during that time and eventually I got completely burnt out and wanted nothing more to do with it. So I put the whole thing on the back burner until I could find time again to hopefully finish it.

That's exactly what I plan to do now. I've started everything up again and plan to make a live disc for Tiger (hopefully), Leopard and Snow Leopard. I would like to make a couple for Lion and Mountain Lion too but I only have a 1st gen MacBook (x86 CPU ONLY) to do testing with so those will probably have to wait awhile. It isn't a big deal though considering the method to create live discs for Lion and ML should be EXTREMELY easy.

Anyway, I understand it likely doesn't mean a thing now since so much time has gone by, but I wanted to apologize for not replying to the thread and keeping it updated like I wanted to. I also want to thank everyone who helped me or tried offering up their advise for my project. I do very much appreciate it. Oh and of course, i'll keep the thread updated on any and all progress this time, assuming I don't catch hell from the mods for replying to this old thread. ;p

You could always donate it to me. I'm in need of an OS 9 guinea pig after all. ;p

And yeah they're right. As an OS X machine it would be...painful to say the least.

Same problem here. Initially, I thought my E5200 wasn't ML "supported" and the new mach_kernel was causing my reboots but I tested this on an i7-equipped laptop and yielded the same results so now i'm confused. The i7 should have had no problem loading both the kernel and the installer, it meets all the requirements. I hope someone knows something we don't...

I'm an idiot. Out of habit, I formatted my USB HDD as MBR for the ML install which it refuses to use. After reformatting it to GUID and testing again everything worked as it should and within a few minutes, the installer screen popped up. Maybe my honest mistake will help someone else. ;-p

Been trying to update my 760 from 10.7.4 to 10.8 since ML has finally released in the App Store but i've run into a wall. Upon trying to run the ML installer from a USB HDD the system reboots after loading all the kexts. At first, I though my E5200 wasn't supported to run ML and figured the new mach_kernel was causing the reboot but then I tested it again on an i7-equipped laptop and it rebooted on that too after loading the kexts.

Anyone else experience this or have a solution to fix it?

I'm an idiot. Out of habit, I formatted my USB HDD as MBR for the ML install which it clearly refuses to use. After reformatting it to GUID and testing again everything worked as it should and within a few minutes, the installer screen popped up. Honest mistake, lesson learned ;-p

I am currently backing up important data before I go through with the upgrade. After everything is safe I will continue with the ML install and will update this page with progress and assuming all goes well, I will again provide a zip archive with my required files for ease of use to other users. See ya soon...

UPDATE: First post is updated again with all the required stuff for running Mountain Lion! Since it is such a "minor" update, most of the files are the same ones used for Lion. The exception is FakeSMC, which was updated.