iNeed iDVD

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My iMac 800 with a SuperDrive is not installed like Apple wants, it's partitioned and customized like I want it. One thing thou, through the Mac OS X CD I can't install iDVD. I asked their support to help me install it(it must be on one of the CDs, right?) and the response I got was that I've installed "incorrectly" and that they can help me install "correctly".

Does anyone know on which CD iDVD lies, how I get it out of there and how to install it on my system? Alternatively, does anybody care enough to let me download an iDVD installer(which I technically own) from their computer? It's so annoying to have a SuperDrive and not having the software...
 
you should be able to download the idvd update from apple website. it should install the full app as far as I remember.

Or, it comes with your Mac system software on a CD called "OS X Applications"
 
OK, the update won't update less I have iDVD installed and there are no .pkg-files to open, the CDs consist of .dmgpart-files. Don't anyone have an iDVD CD and can tell me how much space it takes. If it's small enough, could you please put it on your iDisks?
 
the iDVD updater will not install a full version. even if you force it to install when there is no previous installation. it doesn t contain a full install.

i can t give it to you, voice, cause i don t have it. but you can definitely extract it from the OS install disk. i know how to install individual applications from the OS install disk, but i cannot verify this process for iDVD: iDVD was not shipping yet when 10.1 first came out.

anyway, it looks something like this:

Code: 
# cd /
# zcat /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ CD/System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg/Contents/Resources/Essentials.pax.gz | pax -r './Applications/iDVD.app'

in the retail install disk, all applications are in the Essentials.pkg package. if your newer disk is basically the same, then this should work. some disks might store the apps in a different package location. just look around a little.

you can also browse the applications with a GUI if you install a third party app called pacifist. it is basically just a frontend to pax, so if you don t want to play on the command line, then use pacifist.

or you can wait for someone to email you iDVD.app.tgz
 
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