Any succcess on buring another copy of OSX disk?

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Trying to burn a copy of original installer, but the copy disk would not start from the cd. Am I missing a files that's not letting me copy to another disk?

help.

jimmy
 
i've never had any problems burning backup copies using toast and copy mode. it's a good idea to do so. i learned my lesson after a dirty cd drive temporarily disabled my original until i cleaned it. since then i only use my backup copy.
 
Originally posted by edX
i've never had any problems burning backup copies using toast and copy mode. it's a good idea to do so. i learned my lesson after a dirty cd drive temporarily disabled my original until i cleaned it. since then i only use my backup copy.
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I copied it so many times, and I can't seem to figure out why the copied version can''t be boot.

HAve any suggestion on what 3rd party sofwate, sahreware I can get inorder to copy a disk.


Sigh.
 
dd if=/dev/disk0whateveryerCDDriverIs of=mac.iso

and burn resulting image to disc with disc copy.
 
Well for example
On my Imac, the cdrom drive is located at:
/dev/disk1s1s2
And the hard drive is at:
/dev/disk0s10

To find the CDROM, an easy way to locate your cdrom is in the terminal type:
mount

You'll see output. Find the name of the CDROM you've inserted, for example
/dev/disk1s1s2 on /Volumes/my backup 36 (local, nodev, nosuid, read-only)

is my cdrom driver
and
/dev/disk0s9 on / (local)
is my hard drive.

Easy stuff!
so to make an ISO of that cd, in the terminal I would type
bash-2.05a$ dd if=/dev/disk1s1 of=Backup.iso

dd creates a duplicated disc (now what the initials stand for) copy
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?dd+1

dd - convert and copy a file
SYNOPSIS
dd [option=value] ...
DESCRIPTION
dd copies the specified input file to the specified output with possible
conversions. The standard input and output are used by default. The
input and output block sizes can be specified to take advantage of raw
physical I/O. dd processes supplementary code-set characters according
to the locale specified in the LC_CTYPE environment variable (see LANG in
environ(5)), except as noted below.

Option Values

if=file Input filename; standard input is default.

of=file Output filename; standard output is default.
 
Originally posted by seann
Well for example
On my Imac, the cdrom drive is located at:
/dev/disk1s1s2
And the hard drive is at:
/dev/disk0s10

To find the CDROM, an easy way to locate your cdrom is in the terminal type:
mount

You'll see output. Find the name of the CDROM you've inserted, for example
/dev/disk1s1s2 on /Volumes/my backup 36 (local, nodev, nosuid, read-only)

is my cdrom driver
and
/dev/disk0s9 on / (local)
is my hard drive.

Easy stuff!
so to make an ISO of that cd, in the terminal I would type
bash-2.05a$ dd if=/dev/disk1s1 of=Backup.iso

dd creates a duplicated disc (now what the initials stand for) copy
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?dd+1

dd - convert and copy a file
SYNOPSIS
dd [option=value] ...
DESCRIPTION
dd copies the specified input file to the specified output with possible
conversions. The standard input and output are used by default. The
input and output block sizes can be specified to take advantage of raw
physical I/O. dd processes supplementary code-set characters according
to the locale specified in the LC_CTYPE environment variable (see LANG in
environ(5)), except as noted below.

Option Values

if=file Input filename; standard input is default.

of=file Output filename; standard output is default.
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Try using Toast to duplicate your disc, if you don't already.

Or Firestarter FX—I hear it does wonderful things. :)D, Androo!)
 
dd, as seann mentioned in his message, is a Unix command. You'd have to run Terminal, which is located in /Applications/Utilities.

Be careful. Typing errors can cause unexpected results.

Doug
 
Another method without using Toast is to use Diskcopy. You want to image the OSX CD as a "Master"; then that "Master" image may be burned back to CD (also using DiskCopy).

BTW: Should someone want to create an OS9 boot CD (not a copy but a custom boot CD), it needs to be done while booted into OS9 in order for the boot blocks of the HD to be copied to the CD. Doing this in OSX will copy the OS9 boot blocks but, as you're booted into OSX, guess why the CD won't boot? (I know this is not on point as the original ? referred to OSX, but some may find this hint useful.)
 
You also have to burn with plain HFS, either Mac OS or Mac OS and PC hybrid—no extended format, or you can't boot from your custom OS 9 CD.

OS X creates disks that look like PC disks in OS 9. They're still readable, but it's a little annoying when it's all caps, 8.3 lettters, etc.
 
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