[gwschreyer]

Is there a special trick to making a bootable DVD?

When I travel, I prefer to carry a system install disk with me. I would also prefer NOT to carry the original. Therefore I would like to make a copy so that if it gets messed up, I still have the original safely packed away.

I tried this with the DVD that came with the new PB but it won't boot.

- gws

[fulmer]

Search the boards--there should be old threads on making bootable CDs, which might suffice, and there used to be a program around that'd help you with that.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by fulmer:
Search the boards--there should be old threads on making bootable CDs, which might suffice, and there used to be a program around that'd help you with that.

That would be BootCD, although I don't think that is what this person wants as he is asking for an install DVD, not an emergency rescue DVD. To make the former, I would do the following:

1. Make a disk image that's the size of a DVD and mount it

2. Clone Disk 1 of the Mac OS X Install CD's onto the DVD image using sudo ditto -rsrcFork in the Terminal

3. Copy the packages from Disk 2 (and Disk 3 if you're running Panther) into the DVD image's System/Installation/Packages folder, replacing the proxy packages when asked

4. Bless the image using this command at the terminal:

sudo bless -folder <path to mounted image>/System/Library/CoreServices -bootinfo <path to mounted image>/usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.bootinfo

[Uncle Skeleton]

and please let us know if this works, because I took a few swings at it about a year ago and got only toasters (well, they would mount of course, but not boot)

[gwschreyer]

I'm not completely clear on the instructions but I'm very glad that somebody responded with something.

I already made a disk image with disk copy. I would assume that this is the exact size

I'm not running Panther (yet). This disk image has a bootable partition for the installer, the software restore and the Apple Hardware test

The Terminal stuff I can handle, provided I get the initial setup right.

I may wait until Panther to try this as the disk that came with the computer will very soon be obsolete. The hardware test would be good, but when Apple sends me a new TechTools disk (the one that I got with AppleCare won't boot because my system needs at least 10.2.7 and its 10.2.3), that will nicely replace the Apple hardware test.

- gws

- gws

[aaanorton]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
1. Make a disk image that's the size of a DVD and mount it

2. Clone Disk 1 of the Mac OS X Install CD's onto the DVD image using sudo ditto -rsrcFork in the Terminal

3. Copy the packages from Disk 2 (and Disk 3 if you're running Panther) into the DVD image's System/Installation/Packages folder, replacing the proxy packages when asked

4. Bless the image using this command at the terminal:

sudo bless -folder <path to mounted image>/System/Library/CoreServices -bootinfo <path to mounted image>/usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.bootinfo

You lost me right there after 1. Could anybody provide a simpler step-by-step for creating a bootable Panther install DVD? I need to travel with a number of computers as well, and would love to only need 1 DVD, while keeping my CDs safe somewhere.

Thanks