Replace Finder

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How to replace Finder

Find Finder.app on the OSBoot partition. Its in System/Library/CoreServices. 

cd /Volumes/OSBoot/System/Library/CoreServices


Unmount the filesystem to be able to write and not get a (Readonly error) 

sudo mount -uw /

Rename Finder.app to Finder.app.sav. Copy in your replacement app and rename it to Finder.app. 

mv Finder.app Finder.app.sav
cp /<some-path>/CenteraStage.app Finder.app

Now, navigate into its Contents/MacOS folder and copy its bin to Finder. 

cd Contents/MacOS
cp CenterStage Finder
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