copying 10.5 system disc
hi there i always make a copy of my important discs, and i'd like to make one of the 10.5 Leopard disc that came with my G4 (off ebay), but i see it is dual layer. any nifty tricks for making a copy onto multiple reg. dvds? i have toast. thanks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: copying 10.5 system disc
On Feb 21, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Demetrius wrote: i always make a copy of my important discs, and i'd like to make one of the 10.5 Leopard disc that came with my G4 (off ebay), but i see it is dual layer. any nifty tricks for making a copy onto multiple reg. dvds? i have toast. I use Disk Copy for copying the 10.5 install disk, which is indeed dual layer, but Toast will certainly work, too. From the Hackintosh crowd is a bunch of scripts which will remove languages and features from an install disk, and get it down to a single layer. I successfully used that script once. It was a good use for my quad core Hackintosh, as the process takes lots of CPU cycles. The DVDs are not video disks, so they don't have a region. However, a new DVD drive will have to have its home region set the first time you use it. Region 1 is North America (AKA, USA). The ripping tools don't care about region, but DVD Player certainly does. Anyway, try Disk Utility for making a duplicate. I always do my installs from a backup DVD, never from the original DVD media, which I keep in a media safe along with the license materials, etcetera. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: copying 10.5 system disc
On 22/02/2009, at 10:48 AM, Demetrius wrote: hi there i always make a copy of my important discs, and i'd like to make one of the 10.5 Leopard disc that came with my G4 (off ebay), but i see it is dual layer. any nifty tricks for making a copy onto multiple reg. dvds? i have toast. thanks! G'day Demetrius Unfortunately, no. To be useable on 2 DVD's, the installer would have to be especially written to ask for the second DVD. Regards Santa --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: copying 10.5 system disc
ok thanks Peter and Brian. i don't think i want to mess around with hacking the install disc down to single layer, sounds risky in the long run, especially for an amateur like me. would it make sense to make a 'disk image', and save it on another drive? i've never done this, but maybe will give it a try. cheers! On Feb 21, 3:48 pm, Demetrius babag...@gmail.com wrote: hi there i always make a copy of my important discs, and i'd like to make one of the 10.5 Leopard disc that came with my G4 (off ebay), but i see it is dual layer. any nifty tricks for making a copy onto multiple reg. dvds? i have toast. thanks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: copying 10.5 system disc
Demetrius wrote: ok thanks Peter and Brian. i don't think i want to mess around with hacking the install disc down to single layer, sounds risky in the long run, especially for an amateur like me. would it make sense to make a 'disk image', and save it on another drive? i've never done this, but maybe will give it a try. cheers! Another option if you have an unused 10 Gb or so HD is to use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the DVD over to the HD. I did this with the Tiger installer to use it on machines without DVD drives. I put the HD in a FireWire case and can then boot from that drive. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
