Using DiskCopy 4.2 files in OS X Panther

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I am trying to make a bootable system diskette for an old Mac Portable that I am trying to restore. I have a G5 and have a DiskCopy 4.2 boot disk (system 6.08) image file. For the life of me, I cannot get DiskUtility to create a bootbale disk. It tries then gives me an error on any floppy....so I must be doing something wrong. Any suggestions?
 
Another note. the error is: An Error (1) occured while copying. It is when it seems like it should be finishing.
 
Are you using DD (800KB) floppies? Some of the old bootable images may REQUIRE an 800KB floppy disk, not a 1.4MB. Are you able to do an 'erase' of that floppy from Disk Utility? Not all floppy drives support 800K disks, you can read but not write to them. If that is the case, then best way to proceed is to get an older Mac that has an internal floppy and create your boot disks from there.
 
It is a 1.44 image and I have a 1.44 drive and diskette. So that is not the problem. I am able to erase the disk, but just not do a 'RESTORE'... it starts, runs for a few seconds, sounds like it is doing it then....bam...error of one sort or another.
 
Well, how big is the image file? From that you can extract whether it should go onto an 800K or 1.44M floppy.
 
Is Disk Utility even *supposed* to work with Disk Copy 4.2
img files?

I certainly can't use it to make a bootable OS9 CD.

I switch in 9 to to "Classic Mac" stuff like that.

And of course your G5 doesn't have that option.
 
It is a 1.4 file for a 1.4 disk. I was told that all the DiskCopy functions were now part of Disk Utility. Thanks for the help so far, but no dice yet!
 
I also tried it on my Powerbook 17" with classic running, DiskCopy 4.2 will not run saying "Disk Copy will not run on this kind of Macintosh since certain required support is not provided"
 
One more...I also tried Disk Copy 6.6.3 and it loaded but would not load the image files.... however I can open the image files under OSX and mount them and fool with the files on the image
 
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