On May 17, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Brett Conlon wrote: > Can you select the disc image or its mounted volume as the startup > disc? > No. > > But to clarify, the disc image (if built properly) can be restored > to a > drive partition and it will be bootable. > > Coj > I just used the Restore feature in Tiger to make a copy of my start up disk on my empty 40 GB drive. I was then able to select it in System Preferences as the start up disk. It started up fine and seemed to work fine. Thanks, Kevin