Burning a Third-Party Boot Disc

Hi,
I'm trying to create a boot disc on my MacBook Pro for another computer. The OS I am going to be burning on there is a third-party OS, NOT Mac. ( http://centos.org/ ) All I am finding is information on how to backup my Mac OS boot disc. I'm on Leopard 10.5.5. Any help?
Cheers,
B

Hi,
although I am having difficulties understanding what you really want to burn/backup, I try answering:
To backup the OSX volume on your internal harddisk you can use Time Machine which is part of OSX Leopard or SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and an external harddisk.
http://www.apple.com/support/leopard/timemachine/
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
For burning CDs/DVDs you can use Disk Utility (see the help files in Disk Utility for how-to) or SimplyBurns which I prefer.
http://simplyburns.berlios.de/
For making a copy of your OSX Installation DVD you must use a DVD-DL+R since the OSX DVD is larger than the 4.7GB of a standard DVD-R.
Depending on the size of the CentOS you can use a writeable CD/DVD/DVD-DL.
SImplyBurns has an interface with five buttons from which you choose '1:1-Disccopy' to make the copy.
Hope it helps
Stefan

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