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Getting it to work with DVD
Authored by: swank on Apr 24, '02 11:05:39AM

Here's what I did:

1.On an empty drive, I made a 4GB partition.
2.Followed all the CCC intstructions and cloned my start up volume. It worked. I could start up from the 4GB partition and everything seemed to be ok.
3.I booted back to my normal start-up volume and started Toast.
4.In Toast I seleceted 'Mac volume' and chose the 4GB cloned partition with 'Optimize-on-the-fly' Un-checked & bootable checked.
5. Afeter burning (RW) the resulting DVD would not boot. ;[

Is Toast the problem? I tried using DiskCopy, but the way it uses those low-level system id numbers for the different partitions, I couldn't tell what was what...



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Getting it to work with DVD
Authored by: bombich on Apr 24, '02 01:15:54PM
Much of the startup process relies on the ability to write to the startup disk, which you cannot do if you're booting from read-only media such as a CD or DVD. I've written some instructions that will point you in the right direction towards creating a bootable CD. Let me warn you now, though: its is not an easy task and it certainly isn't as straightforward as a Mac OS 9 boot disk. Your method will give you a complete backup, though, which is nothing to shake a stick at...

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Getting it to work with DVD-update
Authored by: swank on Apr 25, '02 07:45:23AM

I decided to verify if the DVD i made from toast was indeed nothing to shake a stick at... SO I wiped the 4GB partition and used CCC to clone the DVD back to it.

It Worked! Everything seems to be working fine...

thanks to all above!



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