The first time I tried to complete this process I used a burner that was supposed to be compatible with Disk Copy. You need a CD burner that is fully supported by Disk Copy. The file that I download contained directions written in both English and French. The program is localized in Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The current version will work with “Old World ROM” machines such as the beige G3. Version 0.5.3 (current at press time) requires OS X 10.2 or later, but a previous version supports other versions of OS X. If you have removed any of these items from your Mac OS X installation, reinstall them before attempting to create your emergency CD. Disk Copy, Disk Utility, and the BSD subsystem must be installed.It is time for a trip to the virtual toolbox. This task will not work without the right tools at hand. So, let’s roll up our sleeves, gather our tools, and get to work. There is indeed a way to create an OS X emergency CD that is capable of booting the system. The good news is that smarter Mac users than I have come to the rescue. What was a guy like me to do? Well, when I don’t know the answer, I try to find people who do. I must admit, I was not that knowledgeable. Suddenly the techniques for creating an OS 9 emergency CD did not work creating an OS X emergency CD required an understanding of Unix commands and files as well as Mac files. With the advent of OS X, that process came to a complete standstill. In order to do that, you must boot from either another hard drive, or a utility CD. There are also times when booting from a utility CD is a necessity, especially when a utility cannot make repairs to the boot partition or drive. This was a real time saver it meant I could boot from one CD and run several utilities, rather than restarting from multiple CDs to run the same utilities. Sometime in between System 7.1 and Mac OS 9.2, I started creating emergency CDs that contained the system software needed to boot the computer, and utilities that I used frequently to repair it. I have never really ruined any significant hardware, unless you count one Apple IIGS logic board, but I have damaged system files and hard drive structures more times than I care to count.īecause I had become so good at making a complete mess of my Mac, I had to be at least decent at cleaning up the mess that I had made. Unfortunately, sometimes things go wrong.
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