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Unmount the disc and burn to a DVD.I did this and was able to install Panther from the DVD.Delete all text from to (including these two keywords). Removing these lines tells the Apple Installer that it should look for the packages at Mac OS X Install Disc 1 -> System -> Installation -> Packages.

They look like this: IFPkgFlagProxyPackageLocationdisc://Mac OS X Install Disc ?/**********Where ? stands for Disc 2 or 3 and ***. Delete any IFPkgFlagProxyPackageLocation key.

Open the fileMac OS X Install Disc 1 -> System -> Installation -> Packages -> istwith a text editor (or with Apple's Property List Editor, included with XCode).

It seems Disc 1 has placeholders for all the installable packages. The Finder will give you a warning about items with the same name: select Replace.

Insert Disc 2 and copy all files from Mac OS X Install Disc 2 -> Packages to Mac OS X Install Disc 1 -> System -> Installation -> Packages.Now you have a disk with 1.28 gigabytes of free space. How much smaller should it be compared to the image file? I don't know, but hdiutil will give you an error if you try to grow the partition beyond the space available in the image file. For that, type: hdiutil resize -size 1.9g -partitionOnly ~/Desktop/Panther.dmgNotice how the partition size is smaller than the image size. Now, the partition inside the image hasn't been resized yet.

Type the following: hdiutil resize -size 2g -imageonly ~/Desktop/Panther.dmgThis command resizes the image to two gigabytes (this took 1 minute, 20 seconds on my 1GHz TiBook). IMPORTANT: the image must be in read/write format so you can add files later. Let's name it "Panther.dmg" and place it on the Desktop.

With Apple's Disk Utility, create an image (DMG file) of the first Panther CD.

Read the rest of the hint for the how-to. I didn't find anything on the Internet so, from bits and pieces I had read before, I tried to get one DVD from the three CDs. I had to install Panther on my wife's iBook and was thinking how my TiBook install DVD (Jaguar) was better than 3 CDs and that maybe it was possible to create a DVD from the CDs.