how do I make a startup disc Mac OS 10.68

Jammin7707 wrote:

I would like to make an OS X 10.6.8 bootable DVD which also contains my favorite disk utlity apps (emergency boot dvd disk). I have 10.6.8 installed on my MacBook Pro. Is this possible? I think I saw an article that explained how to create a USB flash drive with OS X and utility apps. It seems like I should be able to create a DVD as well.

Thanks.

Why not install Snow Leopard on another partition or an external drive along with your favorite Disk Utilities, I am presuming things like DiskWarrior, TechTools, Genius or whatever, then you can boot from there and do any maintenence you believe you may need to your primary partition/drive.

Cheers

But what kind? An installer disc? If that's what you want then make a copy of the one you have:

Duplicate a CD or DVD

1. Insert the DVD/CD;

2. Open Disk Utility, and select the DVD/CD from the left side list (select the DVD/CD icon on top);

3. from the DU File menu select New | Disk Image from Disk 1;

4. Choose to format the disk image as DVD/CD Master, name the disk image and click Save;

5. When the .cdr file is finished select it with mouse and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info and check the box to lock the file;

6. Choose the .cdr file from the left side list, click Burn, and insert a new, blank DVD or CD.

You can't create a boot DVD from a present OS X install.

You can only:

1: create a duplicate of a existing OS X boot DVD

2: clone your present OS X install to another drive.

If you have the original Leopard or Snow Leopard that came with your machine, then grab your serial number from the Apple Menu > About this Mac > More Information and call Apple with a credit card handy, they will send you replacement grey disks that came with your machine only.

If you've upgraded to Snow Leopard (from Leopard) then you can order new Snow Leopard retail/upgrade disks online at many places like Amazon.

If you have OS X Lion, it doesn't come with boot disks, it's only sold at the AppStore that gets installed with 10.6.8. and on new Mac's.

There is a Lion USB for $69 sold by Apple.

I would like to make an OS X 10.6.8 bootable DVD which also contains my favorite disk utlity apps (emergency boot dvd disk). I have 10.6.8 installed on my MacBook Pro. Is this possible? I think I saw an article that explained how to create a USB flash drive with OS X and utility apps. It seems like I should be able to create a DVD as well.

Thanks.

http://www.walterjessen.com/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-leopard-install-disc/

Thanks. I had already figured this out and tried it. When the burning gets 50% through it crashes and says there is a DVD drive error. System Profile shows -R DL and +R DL for DVD-Write. I used a Maxell DVD+R DL disk. Is there a difference between DL disks that could cause a compatability issue? I noticed the link you sent above mentions Verbatim DVD+R DL.

What I really need to do is not just copy my OS X Snow Leopard DVD boot disk, I would also like to have my disk utility apps installed alog with a stream-lined OS on the DVD. Is this possible? It may be easier to just buy a low cost external USB/Firewire drive and install what I need on it for my emergency OS X disk.

I saw an article in MacLife Magazine that shows you how to create a bootable SD card drive with all your favorite disk utilities on it. I don't have an SD card slot on my Late 2008 MacBook Pro (I have a PCIe slot). So I tried a USB to SD card adapter. It seemed to work OK, but when I was istalling Snow Leopard the SD drive unmounted and would not come back no matter what I tried.

Again, a small external hard disk may be the best solution.

Jammin7707 wrote:

Again, a small external hard disk may be the best solution.

I used to have a small external. About 40GB if I recall, which had Snow Leopard and my Maintenance utilities on it. It booted fine. When I changed to Lion, as i mentioned before, I just made a 50GB partition on my main drive and installed Snow Leopard and Utilities on to that and can boot into that when I want to do maintenance to to main partition. Either way it works. Just in my case I don't have to carry around an extra drive. I suppose you could always buy a portable USB drive and partition a small part of that for SL and use the main partition for Time Machine and effectively kill two birds with one clone.

Cheers

What sort of startup disk? Do you mean a bootable installer disc or a bootable system disc, do you mean a DVD, a USB drive, USB flash drive?

If you mean a bootable clone of your Mac's boot disk, then Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper (free for a full clone)

this might interest you http://www.walterjessen.com/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-leopard-install-disc/