Thanks for all the suggestions everyone, but I still haven't been able to burn a bootable CD. I am making a nice set of coasters though. I must still be doing something wrong.
First of all, I can't figure out how to make Toast mount a disk image. There isn't any "make disk image" option in the Toast menus. There is a "mount disk image" under the Utilities menu, and when I choose that, a button appears on the Toast window with "Mount" on it. Hitting this "Mount" button causes a dialogue box to pop up that lets you rummage through folders and choose "Open." What is it that Toast want you to open? In this box I can locate the TechTool CD, and open up everything on it, right up to the last item in any folder, without being able to choose anything. In fact, after I get to the last item in any folder, even the "Open" button grays out. I can't figure out what it is that Toast wants opened before it will mount a disk image. If I drop the TechTool CD image into the Toast window, I can choose "Disk Image" from a button on the Toast window, with exactly the same result: a "Mount" button appears on the window that, when I hit it, sends me off to "Open" something again until I run out of things to open. Then I tried choosing "Disk Copy" from Toast's Format menu, and then Toast's window says "No Data Selected." I can't figure out how to select anything, either. If I hit the "Data" button a box pops up that says "Please select a device" and shows me a list of two "devices," one of them the CD-RW drive in the Mac, the other one a SCSI drive inside the Mac. If I try dropping the icon of the CD into the window again, it automatically reverts from "Disk Copy" to the "Mac Volume" option. So, I gave up trying to make a disk image, or using Disk Copy, and once again had Toast create a temporary partition on my largest drive. I then copied the TechTool CD into the partition as before, ejected the original CD and put in a blank, and had toast burn a copy as before, except this time I located the little check box that allows a copy of a CD to be bootable, and put a check in it. Toast burned the copy as before, but once again, it isn't a bootable copy. Time after time I've restarted the Mac holding down the C key, but the CD is ignored. Not only that, but after Toast made the copy off the partition, verified it, and ejected it, upon ejecting the CD a box popped up that said "Do you want to burn the disk?" as if I hadn't already done it. Is this some kind of a plot by Adaptec to drive people mad?" I guess all I can do is keep on trying, hoping to hit on a successful method of making a bootable copy CD, but I could use some more suggestions if anybody has any. By the way, what is the standard number for a complete set of coasters, one dozen? I'm well on my way toward that. Chuck and Bruce, you speak as though Toast was a program from your long dead past. What application are you using to burn CDs now? Maybe I need to give up on Toast and try some other app. Thanks again for the help everyone. Tom At 11:06 AM -0700 01/14/2003, Bonnie wrote: >Here's the method I used to make a bootable CD. I have all my utilities on >it...TechTool, Disk FA, Drive Setup, etc. so I can use any or all utilities >that I need at any time: > >1. Make a 655MB image using Disk Copy. > >2. Copy a system folder from your HD or from one of your utilities (I used >8.6 from my Norton CD, or use the one from the bootable CD that that came >with your MAC. It's easier than removing all the unwanted extensions and >utilities from your system folder.) > >3. Copy all the utilities, files, etc. you want to the disk image. > >4) Check disk image for errors with a disk utility. > >5) Reboot and launch Toast. Mount your disk image, then drag to the Toast >window. > >6) Check aliases > >7) Burn the disk, not a session > >Hope this works for you. > >Bonnie > >> From: Tom Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (G-List) >> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:53:46 -0700 >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (G-List) >> Subject: Trouble making a bootable copy of a utility CD >> >> I'm a novice at burning copy CDs, but I want to make working copies of my >> utility CDs, such as TechTool Pro and Disk Warrior, and keep the originals >> safe in their cases. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
