Emergency Tiger drive-10.4 or higher?

[bluecool]

I preparing a mobile "emergency" bootable firewire drive for trouble shooting machines in my small office. I was advised to install the basic Tiger system software on it. I'd like some advice on the following 2 questions.

1) System on the Drive:
Should I keep the system version at 10.4.3 that comes with my Tiger disk? or update the drive to 10.4.4 or 10.4.5? Safer to keep it old?

2) Storage on the Drive:
Should I load other utlilities on to the drive (Tech Tools, Drive Genius, Disk Warrior) for doing troubling shooting and tests on the broken machine I'm working on? Can I keep .dmg files on the drive of the combo updates if I have to reinstall Tiger on the broken machine?

Look forward to some expert help.

Thanks
jake

 

[simbalala]

Just get SuperDuper. It works great and your Firewire drive will serve as more than an emergency "bootable".

I use two FW drives each divided into two partitions and SuperDuper.

Once you have it you can decide on the best strategies and possibly change them over time to best suit your needs.

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html