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Create a bootable repair CD via OS 9 System
Having given up making an OS X bootable CD for my G4 Ti, I reverted to putting all of my utilities (Disk Warrior, TechTool Pro, Plus Optimizer, etc) on an OS 9 bootable CD burned from a volume on which the 9.2.2 minimum system (from the Ti CD) was installed. The burn went fine from Toast but, ugh, it wouldn't boot the Ti????

So I did the exact same thing using Toast on a machine running OS9, and everything worked fine. Maybe because Toast pulls something from OS9 to make a bootable CD? In any event, the CD works great and all of the repair utilites do fine on my disks running 10.1.4.

Hope someone finds this of use.
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BootCD
Authored by: JohnnyMnemonic on May 16, '02 10:11:35AM
MacFixit is sponsoring a link to a utility called BootCD; I've personally successfully created a bootable CD this way, and included utilities of my choosing. In the latest version your drives are now mountable.

It's worth reading the MacFixit user guide, however, as there remain some strange things with it that might surprise you.

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BootCD - an alternative
Authored by: barryjaylevine on May 16, '02 11:38:36AM

BootCD would not boot my B&W; something about a video driver. Here's a solution that works every time - even from OSX:

1. Use Apple's Disk Copy (in OSX) and create an image from the OS9 CD. Make sure you specify "CD/DVD master" from the popup menu or it will not be bootable.

2. Mount the image and toss out the junk you won't need (like the installer stuff).

3. Drag over items like your Norton SystemWorks folder (making sure that the Norton SharedLib file is inside the Norton Tools folder - you can find it in your Extensions folder).

4. Unmount the image.

5. Use Disk Copy to burn the image back to a CD.

*presto*



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no need for master
Authored by: eagle_eyes on May 16, '02 12:56:56PM

I make tons of bootable disk using just read/write format from disk copy. They work fine, bootable, modifiable, etc!! I have not tried to make an OS X bootable. The sad part of OS X is that OS 9 is much easier to deal with when there are serious hardware issues. Mostly because there are a lot more options for utiliies under 9, that have had years of development.



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no need for master
Authored by: gospodin_david on May 16, '02 03:15:44PM

I think that the issue is really that OS X adds (finally) real hardware abstraction. That is to say that it doesn't programs other than the kernel and its extentions touch anything. It's like how a lot of hardware firmware updaters on the IBM/PC platform make you use DOS instead of Windows. In other words OS 9 runs without any protection from anything (which, incidentally is the main reason why it's faster).



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Actually...
Authored by: kerouassady on May 16, '02 06:20:13PM

...the reason you can't make an OS9 bootable CD with Toast under OSX is that it won't. Doesn't support it under OS9. Roxio says reboot into OS9, launch the app and it will work unless something has changed in the last month.. You can do it with Disc Copy copying the system folder to an image and using the bless -system9 command in the Terminal.



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need this for OSX!
Authored by: zephc on May 17, '02 04:35:26AM

What we need is something like this for OS X! Boot from the CD, it takes u into a generic OS X desktop env. with lots of handy disk-saving utilities. Even having IE on there would be handy for looking up info info online to help you save yourself =] Someone with some pacience to compile the package could do it though



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need this for OSX!
Authored by: kerouassady on May 21, '02 04:04:09PM

We do. Its an Applescript Studio app called BootCD with which I made a bootable OSX CD with Disk Utility and the latest version of Drive 10 on it.



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Re: need this for OSX! (we do?)
Authored by: jiclark on May 24, '02 12:04:55AM
Okay Kerouassidy, give us a link, will ya? Or is this just a tease?? ;-}

I would LOVE to be able to accomplish such a thing... Someday there will be a real disk utility for OS X, and when there is, we need to be able to make our own custom CDs with it on there!!!

So can you help us out? Please???

Thanks, John-o

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Make bootable OS 9 CD's in X easily
Authored by: mclbruce on May 17, '02 09:12:27PM

I have a CD that boots in OS 9 with my diagnostic utilities. I use this CD on client's Macs, so I like to keep the latest system and application updates on it. I created this CD in OS X. About once a month I make changes to the contents of the CD's disk image and burn a new CD. I did all this without using Toast or any terminal tricks. Here's how:

In OS X, mount a bootable OS 9 CD.
Open Disk Copy.
In the Image menu, select New Image from Device.
Select the CD.
Name the image, and use the CD/DVD Master format when saving the image file.
Eject the CD.
Now you can open the image file, rename it, and add or remove any files or apps you want. When you "eject" the image, the changes will be saved.

To burn the image file to a disk, open Disk Copy again.
In the Image menu, select Burn Image.
Select your image file, and pop in a blank CD.



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Make bootable OS 9 CD's in X easily
Authored by: macmath on May 19, '02 11:59:05PM

I tried it, and it works!!! In all honesty, I did not think this would work (apologies to mlbruce), but it does. I thought that surely someone would have thought of this before (apologies to mlbruce). The 'Install OS 9' CD that came with my Mac has OS 9.2.1 on it. After creating a successful boot-copy of this disk (with DiskWarrior on it too), I created another with the corresponding files from my OS 9.2.2 System Folder. It works like a dream. This one pointer by mlbruce will cause me to pay to support macoshints!!



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Make bootable OS 9 CD's in X easily
Authored by: Anonymous on May 22, '02 07:13:53PM

When I follow your instructions, it works fine. The only problem is that the image is write protected so I am unable to modify the image. What can I do so that I am able to write to the image ?

Please email me at rmcellig@mac.com



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Make bootable OS 9 CD's in X easily
Authored by: macmath on May 23, '02 12:22:58AM

Originally I tried to make a copy of my DiskWarrior disk so that I could (1) add a copy of Disk First Aid to it, and (2) add a copy of the Disk Setup, and (3) eventually put an updated DiskWarrior application on it in case DiskWarrior were updated. However, that image was write-protected as you mentioned. Then I used the OS 9.2.1 install disk that came with my Mac and that image was not write-protected. So, I would just try another CD capable of booting your Mac.

Ed



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Make bootable OS 9 CD's in X easily
Authored by: JerMac on May 29, '02 06:34:47PM

Great, great ! I had just been wasting two CD's in a row using Toast when I saw your message. I tried your simple method and it works fine for me, no problem with locked disks (as other readers reported), I chose the OS 9.1. CD to work with.

JerMac



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