Convert Installer DVD to CD

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I want to be legal here, but I find it trivial to think that just because I happen to have bought OS X Panther on DVD's instead of CD's that I would be disallowed to convert them to CD's to use on my Wallstreet.

So anyway, if you would, is there a way to convert a Panther install DVD to a couple install CD's? Like I said, I just want to put Panther on my laptop...
 
Well, I'm finding a way. Right now I'm using "BootCD" to create a 700MB bootable image so that I may be able to use XPostFacto to boot a stripped-down copy of Tiger. If that works, maybe with some tweaking, I could copy that boot CD onto the Wallstreet's hard drive, only with write ability.

If I can't get that to work, I'll try removing the hard drive and putting it into one of my external cases...

It's just disappointing that there's no way to split a DVD installer into a CD installer. It's got to be possible.
 
Just a point here - Panther (10.3.x) install did not ship on DVD, unless you have a restore DVD (which will be a grey disk, and not black). With a restore DVD, you may not get that to install, even if you can split up the DVD to CDs. It would be system specific. You mentioned Tiger in your second post, and Apple can replace that DVD with a CD installer set, so you don't have to do all that work. And of course, you have to install that using XPostFacto, as you know.
If you have upgraded the HD, don't forget the 8GB restriction for the OS X boot partition!
Quite a challenge to do what you want to do, so Good Luck! :)
 
Right, as you said, Panther shipped as a restore CD with my eMac. I bought Tiger later, and that's what's currently on my HD -hence my reference to it in my third post-. It would be lovely if Apple could do what you said.

As for the technicality of it, it'll be fun! I always enjoy a good challenge like this. On a side note, I think XPostFacto v.4 bypasses the 8 gig limit, although I'm not sure.
 
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