On Apr 12, 2010, at 1:03 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I guess you mean "forensic distro", i.e. a bootable cd or dvd or
even usb key containing kernel and apps allowing to recover data and
repair operating system.
In fact with a forensic distro you can also recover a windows
system ... why not a macintel?
A repair disk is perfectly possible with OS X...your OS X installer
has always included Disk Utility and other tools, and since 10.4 has
included a considerable range of unix tools reachable via Terminal.
Disk Warrior, too is a bootable repair disk.
What you can't do (and what several people thought the OP meant) was
make a bootable optical disk of your boot volume. That said this is
trivial if you simply use an external hard drive and a utility like
Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper.
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