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Burning OS X
Name: David Date: December 25, 2002 at 18:55:17 Pacific OS: os 9.1 CPU/Ram: 450/512
Comment:
Hi,
I'm trying to make a back up copy of OS X. I dragged the contents of the cd to my hard drive and tried to burn from the hard drove but the burnt disks do not work. I can not start the mac from the disks while holding the C key and when I run the install from the disk, it wont let me restart. Should I have done a disk to disk copy? Will I need a separate CD burner or drive? Am I even allowed to make a back up?
Name: Andy Date: December 26, 2002 at 08:42:20 Pacific
Reply:
Legally you can back-up any software you own. Also OS X can be burnt on a Mac without a problem.
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Response Number 2
Name: David Date: December 26, 2002 at 11:19:20 Pacific
Reply:
Hmmm.. Weird. Any ideas whay the disk I bunrd doesn't work? I have tried twice now.
Thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: David Date: December 26, 2002 at 11:20:57 Pacific
Reply:
Talk about bad typing this morning! Message should have read:
Hmmm.. Weird. Any ideas why the disk I burnt doesn't work? I have tried twice now.
Thanks
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Response Number 4
Name: David Date: December 26, 2002 at 11:36:55 Pacific
Reply:
Hi.... Me again :)
Here is the specific error that I receive:
Start Up Disk is unable to select Install CD at Start Up. Error (-2)
Again, it wont work by holding "C" at start up either.
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Response Number 5
Name: Andy Date: December 26, 2002 at 12:19:30 Pacific
Reply:
Click "make disc bootable"in burning prefs.
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Response Number 6
Name: David Date: December 27, 2002 at 16:16:44 Pacific
Reply:
Ummmm..... how do I do that? I am using Toast 4 with an iomega zip cd 650. There isnt that option anywhere in the program that I can find. I tried installing Disk Burner from apple and that didnt have the option either.
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Response Number 7
Name: cache22 Date: December 30, 2002 at 13:51:04 Pacific
Reply:
Don't drag the folders to your hard drive, use Disk Copy or Toast itself to make a disk image instead. Use Toast to mount that image, then drag the image to the Toast window. Click the 'Data' button, and follow it through; somewhere in there will be a window with 4 checkboxes, one of which is 'Make bootable'. (Sorry I can't be more specific, I don't have Toast installed on any of these machines and I'm working from memory.)
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Response Number 8
Name: the pickle Date: January 2, 2003 at 09:35:32 Pacific
Reply:
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up your OS X install to a writable disk image, and then burn the disk image.
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