Completely disabling/deleting firewire drivers in Mavericks 10.9

My wife's MBP has a known bad firewire port/bus. I successfully disabled it when she upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6 (last 10.6.8). Now she's upgrading to Mavericks 10.9, and I can't find the same files in their logical location. She got as far as her first reboot, so I'll need to use a separate USB boot disk to access and delete those firewire support files from her new system, so it won't hang it.

Right now I see, I was hoping there was another way that didn't hack the installer, e.g. the 'installer choices' option in the installer command.
I think these are good tools to learn from & glean info from the forum & issue queues…
The InstaDMG forum posts on 10.9 point to using AutoDMG instead…
https://github.com/MagerValp/AutoDMG
It looks like this is the guts of AutoDMG…
https://github.com/MagerValp/AutoDMG/wiki/How-Does-AutoDMG-Work%3F
You can copy that process to generate a DMG, or apply the process to a mounted disk - the issue you have is that to install 10.9, you need to be running 10.9!
installer had issues installing for other OS versions, but it may work - it is generally advised to use the same OS IIRC (it's been a little while since I did large build & deployment).
The installer command can show what packages are enabled in an installer (it's an xml file).
installer -showChoicesXML -pkg /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/OSInstall.mpkg
You can generate a new one & supply that into the command.
I do not know where all the firewire drivers are located in the pkgs. Open each of the install packages on a Mac that can install 10.9 & use 'File > Show files' inside installer app. I think some Firewire extensions are part of…
Install ESD > Packages/BaseSystemBinaries.pkg or packages/BaseSystemResources.pkg
Sadly the installer choices for these packages do not have options to disable specific drivers.
It looks like 'installer choices' is not enough?
I think you may want to reconsider what OS you install - the lack of 10.9 support on both Macs makes this tough, unless SFOTT can help?
http://oemden.com/sfott-successful-reported-installs-with-tiamos-boot-efi-and-sf ott-script/

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