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This hint needs fixing
Authored by: mclbruce on Jul 12, '02 08:21:18PM

Step 3 of this hint needs to be changed. In the Image menu of Disk Copy, select "New Image from Device." That changes the rest of the hint considerably...

Step 4 Select your Installer CD from the menu. You may have to click the triangle tab before you are allowed to select.

Step 5 Save the disk image.

Step 6 Open up the image by double clicking on the image file, remove OS installers and add utilities to taste. "Ejecting" the disk image saves the changes.

Step 7 Go into Disk Copy and select Burn Image.

That's about it. Updating and installing utilities on a CD image may require some creativity. For Virex I boot into 9, upgrade virex on my OS 9 HD, boot back into X, and move the virex preferences from my OS 9 HD preferences folder into the preference folder on my disk image. I think Disk Warrior will actually install directly to the open disk image. I wouldn't recommend trying to upgrade the system software on the CD image.



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This hint needs fixing addendum
Authored by: mclbruce on Jul 12, '02 08:24:04PM

My step 5 should read: Save the CD image file in DVD/CD master format. That's a key step.



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This hint needs fixing
Authored by: funnybone_stone on Aug 11, '02 01:35:58AM

This was very useful for me because I was just thinking about this the other day and wishing there was a way to create an emergency boot disk. And I was feeling bummed that all I had was my OS9 install disk and thinking what if that disk became damaged. So, I figured its always good to have at least 2 disks that can access the computer in an emergency. I was also thinking about how nice it would be to have my disk warrior, and norton utilities on one emergency boot disk. And now thanks to these helpful articles I'm glad I could accomplish this dream come true! :)



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This hint needs fixing
Authored by: funnybone_stone on Aug 11, '02 02:59:38AM

I think I had spoken too soon. I tried to do it the second way (written by mclbruce) and I kept getting an error message after completing step 5. The utility reads the files and when the indicator bar reaches the end and error appears: error 5 (input/output error).

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to get beyond this problem?



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This hint needs fixing
Authored by: jackAlbright on Sep 12, '02 10:16:40AM

I tried this hint and was able to burn the CD but the CD was not bootable. I've now tried it twice, following the instructions very closely. Is there a step that's being left out?



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This hint needs fixing
Authored by: srobsrob on Feb 20, '03 02:51:13PM

I too have made many coasters trying this. The thing that got me closest was by combining this with another hint, which is to copy the Mac OS Rom file from the hard drive system file, and replace the one which was copied from the startup CD. That gives you a bootable disk, but the system crashed right after initalization, with a "trap error" message. I'd really appreciate some help here!

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Rob Robinson
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