[X Newbies] Making a bootable CD ????

[David Crandon]

My guess is he wants a bootable OSX CD, since it's on the OSX Newbies
list. Also, since he wants some repair utilities, it may be too big for
a Zip.



Albert W D'Amanda wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 09:45  AM, Mark Gillingham wrote:
> 
> >> So how do you go by creating Bootable Mac OS  CDs ?
> 
> Hello
> 
> Did you first perform a Bootup using  the Temporary  Partition to check
> that you indeed had a blessed System Folder installed ?
> 
> Here is how I was able to accomplish this task.
>   I used a dedicated, "other" drive. A ZIP 100.
> 
> 1. Inserted a "clean"  Zip  disc in my Zip 100  Drive
> 
> 2. Using my OS9.2 Apple Installation CD: I did the  basic OS9.2 Install.
> This placed a "blessed" system folder ( ~ 55MB) on the ZIP disc;  which
> shows up as a separate Volume  Icon on the desktop( opened up to check
> that the  System, System Resources, Finder Folders had the Mac Happy
> Face Icon in front of them)
> 
> 3. Moved selected utilities into the Volume
> 
> 4. Opened up toast 5
> a. Selected "Other"
> b. Hit Select Button
> c. Selected Zip Volume in the Panel  and checked  Bootable Drive and
> unchecked  Optimize on the fly
> d. Hit OK. IMPORTANT_Check that  the next panel dialog contains the
> text: ------ bootable drive. This indicates that Toast recognizes that
> there is a valid, blessed System Folder on the Volume to be burned !
> 
> e. Hit Burn
> 
> done.
> 
> Albert
> B&W Yosemite  // XLR8 G4 500/ 1MB  ZIF // 1024MB RAM
> OS X.2.2
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