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how should I go about doing this? I've made lots for OS 8/9, but never one for X.
I just used my install DVD to install a stripped down 10.4 on a small FW drive, and updated it, and I will install Disk warrior, Onyx, AppleJack, stuff like that. But how do I make a bootable DVD? Just make a UDF DVD and drag everything over through Toast? Use Disk Utility to burn a volume through Finder?
Alsoft still doesn't have a bootable disk available for the MBP machines.
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Use Disk Utility.
Make a disk image of the DVD, then be sure and choose "DVD/CD Master" selection when creating the new start-up disk.
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If you have Toast and two drives you could use the copy function.
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If you are wanting that bootable DVD for restarting the MBP in case it freezes while you are traveling, you might want to install Applejack.
Applejack allows you to start in single-user made (restart holding command-s) and run a series of built-in repairs, without a startup disk and without Disk Utility.
You can run Applejack without a start-up disk. It works with Leopard.
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Applejack is awesome - but it won't work if your hard drive isn't in a bootable state.
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I just used my install DVD to install a stripped down 10.4 on a small FW drive, and updated it, and I will install Disk warrior, Onyx, AppleJack, stuff like that.
Making a bootable DVD of that install would make a great trouble-shooting/rescue DVD.
But then you already knew that.
I still don't see how to do that. Maybe make a sparse image, load that with your custom Install and then use that to make a DVD via Toast or Disk Utility?