On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:

>
> 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/
>>
>

Kris, will the directions on the website work in Leopard too? Jeff

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