On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Isaac Smith wrote: >> Can't he just highlight the mounted DVD and press the Burn button >> without making the Image file? > > Only if he has two drives. Otherwise, I think you need the image file.
Duh. I knew I forgot something! I'm glad I have external DVD-R units and have never had to do this rigmarole for a copy. Copies with a single drive would be a pain. An alternate solution would be fire up another Mac in Target Disk mode and use the Firewire cable to use the other Macs drive for dual drive direct copies. By the way, whenever I've needed an image of any disk, I've always been skeptical of Disk Utility and other programs because they "used to" screw up images of bootable Mac installer CDs and DVDs so that copies made from these images were not bootable. I guess they may be better now, but I always used Terminal command line to create perfect, bootable .iso images of virtually anything. It's a bit-for-bit copy, with any DRM, or hidden anti-copy stuff still present. See: <http://www.slashdotdash.net/2006/08/14/create-iso-cd-dvd-image-with-mac-os-x-tiger-10-4/ > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
