Burn OS X Install Disc 1?!

Well, Disk Utility can indeed do this for you by creating, which I believe you did, a disk image of your Tiger Disk #1 that you can burn afterwards.
What I can't understand is how cannot it fit on a DVD if it is an exact copy of another DVD ?

But will it be a bootable disk then? I'be been told that it's unlikely or almost impossible to create bootable disks on a Mac. And is it legal to copy an original Os X install disk?

it's a dual layer disk - you'd need to burn it to a dual-layer dvd-r

my revB with superdrive can burn these - an isight should be able to?

don't know if it'll be bootable - buy a dual layer disk & try - presume you'd choose dvd/cd master when creating new image from diskutility.

& appropriate options when burning

certainly d/l dvd's that work in dvd players work ok ( unless copy protected, of course)

I searched on the internet and found a free app called BootCD. It says this will make a bootableCD image which you can burn. Is there anybody out there who has some experience with this program?
Cheers

Stefan -

Read that website a little more closely. It says at present BootCD is only compatible with 10.3, not 10.4

Well, I created one just to check and had no problem with it.
Mine was not a dual layer DVD though.

yeah.....sorry I figured that out already. Thanks for the warning anyways. But why do you need a dual layer for copying? Is the original install disk a dual layer as well? It doesn't seem like it. Now I don;t know how it works and I'm not a MacGenius at all, but can't you just copy the install disk onto your Machine and just mount that and then start up from there? Please don;t laugh when this sounds ridiculous 🙂 I don;t know much about OS X.
My concern is that there is a scratch on my original disk 1 (out of the 2) of OS X 10.4 and I just don't want to scratch it even further.
CHeers

Stefan-

I don't know that much about it but perhaps you might like to read How to create a bootable CD in Mac OS X? on a brody's macmaps.com site. He is a former Helper & frequent poster on this board.

You might also want to read this:

http://lowendmac.com/misc/05/0126.html

jacky-

And you could boot from that disk?

I copied it using Toast on a single layer DVD and it worked fine.

Wait.....tell me exactly how you did that Raindog. So you just selected the copy disc assignment in Toast.......and you inserted a Blank DVD (without dual burning options?) and copied it onto this DVD and now you have two bootable Tiger disks? I have Toast 7.01.....is that ok? Did you select special burning options as well?
Thanks

hmmm - maybe some install discs are different?, but my OSX 10.4 install disc 1 contains 5.1GB or 6,022,950,912 bytes.

don't know how that'd fit on a single layer disc,never mind whether or not it would boot properly.

Hey guys,

I can't seem to make a copy from the OS X install dics. Neither Toast nor Disk Utility can handle the copying, saying:

Couldn't complete the last command, because there was an I/O error (your disk may be copy protected)

Result Code = -36

which I actually already expected. Wouldn't it stupid from Apple to not copy protect those install discs?? So my question is.......how the **** did you guys (the ones that says they have done it) manage to do it? 🙂 ???
Cheers