I'm trying to create a custom build of Netscape 7.02 for Mac OS9. However, I run into a problem near the end of the process before I can complete the installer.
First of all, let me explain the process and what I use to (try and) get it done. Here's where you can view the guide to Customizing and Netscape 7.0. This is the guide I followed: http://www.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/ns7/CCKDocs/pdf/cck_guide.pdf (pages 129-134) And here's where you can download the Netscape CCK: http://sunsite.computing.dcu.ie/pub/netscape/cck/english/7.0/NSCCKSetup.exe (Win) Now running through the Netscape CCK on Windows is fine. You can put your custom homepages, mail servers, etc. as usual and it produces four files: - ChromeDefaults.zip - SMI_Creator_for_NSOSX.sit - Resource_IO.sit - ns_smi_eula.rsc.sit At this point the guide asks you to copy the above files to Mac OS9 where you integrate your custom files with a standard Netscape installer. It says to download the Mac OS9 Netscape which you can get from: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.02/mac/macos8/sea/Netscape-mac-full.bin Then you're asked to extract the files inside browser.xpi, langenus.xpi, regus.xpi and deflenus.xpi. Then the guide says to copy relevant files from your custom files over the files extracted from those .xpi files. Now it doesn't mention it in the guide but for the NS installer to work you must re-package these files just like the original .xpi files. This is where I come unstuck. For the life of me, I can't package the files into a .xpi file like the originals. If you zip the unpacked files to a zip file then rename it to .xpi it still is technically a zip file. I tried zipping them on windows and renaming to .xpi but that doesn't work either. I did try installing the custom Netscape with both of those types of .xpi files and it didn't work. So therein lays my problem. When creating the custom Netscape build for OS9 I cannot recreate the .xpi files like the originals. Can anyone please help me?
