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Keeping more than one Tiger in your cage
To protect yourself from a bad CD/DVD drive scratching your $120 Tiger installer disk (and possibly rendering it unreadable) you should consider making a copy of it before using it.
There are two ways we have confirmed that you can do this:
(1) Toast 6.0.9 Titanuim ($55-$99)
Even with 1 DVD drive you can choose the "Copy" option. It will make a copy onto your computer, then spit out your installer and ask for a blank disk. Insert a DVD-R and it will continue by burning, verifying, and leaving you with a bootable copy of Tiger.
(2) Apple Disk Utility (free)
Despite what many 'boards are reporting, you can also create a copy of your Tiger installer with Disk Utility. Here is how you do it:
(a) Open Disk Utility and choose File/New/Disk Image from folder... and choose your installer DVD
(b) Select Image Format: "DVD/CD Master", Encryption: None
(c) Disk Utility will then create a .cdr from your disc.
(d) In the left menu you will see your new image. **Do NOT mount this image**. Simply select it and click "Burn" from the menu. It will burn, verify and leave you with your backup.
Here are the systems used to test and verify these two methods:
BURNING COMPUTER: PowerMac G4 "QuickSilver" with PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104 (Superdrive) running OS 10.4.1 with Disk Utility 10.5 (198) and Toast Titanium 6.0.9.
BOOTING/INSTALLING COMPUTER: PowerBook Pismo with Mashitsa DVD-ROM SR-8174 (OEM)
Due to the drives in these machines DVD+R was *NOT* an option for burning so we can not confirm that this option will work with G5's that have DVD+R capability.
We used Sony DVD-R disks. We do not recommend cheaper disks like Memorex, Staples, etc.
Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on May 29, 2005 7:08 PM