Posted on 05-01-2013 10:41 AM
Has anybody figured out how to get Language Chooser to run at first boot?
if I make my image from a Install OS X.app it seems to assume that since i ran that App in English that is the language I will want everybody to use, and well my customers tend to be Global.
I can make it run, but it runs on top of setup assistant and well its ugly and can be problematic if people start clicking on setup assistant before language chooser appears.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Posted on 09-26-2013 08:31 AM
fyi
touch /private/var/db/.RunLanguageChooserToo
Posted on 05-01-2013 01:01 PM
Well I guess in case anybody else ever cares about this.
the answer is:
touch /private/var/db/.RunLanguageChooserToo
and yes i spelled that correctly.
Posted on 05-01-2013 01:04 PM
nessts, could you elaborate a bit more how you are using this and what the deployment looks like?
Posted on 05-01-2013 01:30 PM
I make a base image from the Install OS x.app, to a blank disk, then i let it reboot and do its install thing.
then when it goes to boot the first time, i netboot it and make an image of that disk, its similar to what instaDMG does, i just do it on a physical disk, i also capture the recovery partition as well.
in this mode the first boot does not ask for language because its assuming since i used english when i ran the installer i must always want to use English.
my images are global i have users in many countries so its preferable for the users to get to choose what language the computer is in.
touching that file allows Language Chooser to run as it would if the system came from the factory.
Posted on 09-26-2013 08:31 AM
fyi
touch /private/var/db/.RunLanguageChooserToo
Posted on 10-10-2016 05:56 AM
@nessts, are you still doing this in 10.11 and 10.12?
Posted on 08-21-2018 06:22 AM
It works with 10.13.6 too.
Posted on 10-23-2018 11:04 AM
yes @makander