Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the '10.3: Create a system install DVD' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
10.3: Create a system install DVD
Authored by: seedy on Dec 30, '03 01:01:22PM

Pardon me if this is off the mark, but why not just make a DVD-sized image, mount it, clone the CD to it with Carbon Copy Cloner, and then add/edit whatever you want from there?

---
If a man says something in the forest and no woman is around to hear him, is he still wrong?



[ Reply to This | # ]
10.3: Create a system install DVD
Authored by: sparkleytone on Dec 30, '03 07:20:03PM

That's what I said man. Except there is no reason to use non free software when it is built into Disk Util.

---
o'doyle rules.



[ Reply to This | # ]
10.3: Create a system install firewire disk
Authored by: NeutronMonk on Dec 31, '03 08:41:26AM

While I agree that a single DVD is more convenient than multiple CDs, given the disparity between the read speeds for the two formats, I should think that the install would be much slower with the DVD. Why not use the above methods to put the install on a portable firewire disk for maximum speed?



[ Reply to This | # ]
10.3: Create a system install firewire disk
Authored by: shemp9999 on Dec 31, '03 01:26:15PM

it's a common misperception that DVDs read slower than CD's - but it's not true. due to the apples and oranges techniques employed by the marketers of such devices, a 1x CD read speed is ~150kb, whereas a 1x DVD read speed is over 1 MB.

pioneer says the DVD reader in my G5 (DVR-106D) is 12x (16.62 MBytes/sec) and it reads CDs at 32X (4.8 MBytes/sec).



[ Reply to This | # ]
10.3: Create a system install firewire disk
Authored by: sparkleytone on Jan 02, '04 01:20:04AM
It applies both ways, all you have to do is use the *drumroll* Restore function.

For those resizing images...its so much easier just to create a sparse image the size of a DVD. Then it only takes as much space as necessary.

---
o'doyle rules.

[ Reply to This | # ]

10.3: Create a system install DVD
Authored by: seedy on Jan 01, '04 12:28:44PM

Carbon Copy Cloner is pretty much free, although I recommend donating since it's so useful and reliable

---
If a man says something in the forest and no woman is around to hear him, is he still wrong?



[ Reply to This | # ]
10.3: Create a system install DVD
Authored by: mweissen on Jan 02, '04 02:54:29AM

Pardon me if this is off the mark, but why not just make a DVD-sized image, mount it, clone the CD to it with Carbon Copy Cloner, and then add/edit whatever you want from there?

I think the boot information needs to go in the CD ROM header, at least that's how the "El Torito" ISO 9660 bootable CD-ROM standard works.

If you make a disk image from a bootable CD, the disk image will be bit-by-bit identical to the original and will thus also be bootable. If you make a new (non-bootable) image, just copying some files to it won't make it bootable; you still need to modify the header.

--M



[ Reply to This | # ]
carbon cloner didnt work for me
Authored by: 1equals0 on Jan 02, '04 10:40:41PM

while i have used ccc in the past successfully to dupe disks,
i was not able get a bootable dvd with ccc this time like this.

guess i have to try the original posters way...



[ Reply to This | # ]