Can I make a DISK IMAGE of the installation DVD as BackUP?

Well after a week of continuing problems, I am so glad that I had several Fully Bootable Backups on external FW800 Hard Drives to keep me alive as my internal HD has been freezing and other repairs may be needed.
The ability to restart via the OPTICAL DRIVE with the original Installation DVD was also a BIG HELP. But, what if my optical drive would go? I am wondering if there is a way to make a copy of the installation drive (I'm thinking of a disk image file - believe Disk Utility can do that??) - But will it be recognized and serve to boot / install Snow Leopard on my Mac should I need it? (MBP-13" mid-2010 issue)
I don't want this for any reason other than emergency backup -- I had a DVD that was scratched and could not be read-- hey, maybe I should burn a copy as well?
Please let me know what is technically and legally possible here. I can't use a snow leopard DVD on this Mac - as it is too new. I need some backup(s).
Thanks!
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Sunday 17 October 2010

Modifying, no. That use to be possible in the pre-Tiger past.
And with Mac Pro all you really need is to have a small 20GB partition and put OS X there for use when you want to run Disk Utility you would also be able to use other programs like CCC or Disk Warrior.
I honestly never have had to get out the original DVD (SL, Leopard, OEM) except maybe once. But I have cloned my system and even backed up my small 20GB "edrive." I also use CCC to backup system (80GB or less) to sparse disk images. But I also bought OS X DVD 10.5.6 as I wanted something with driver support for new hardware, the same thing happening now if you install the ATI 5770 and won't be able to boot with less than 10.6.4.
BootCD back in 10.3.x days though could be used not just to add other packages and use the current OS to create DVD, but to have a live DVD and be able to run Firefox and utilites.
Installing OS X off FW drive is fast, fast booting, and 5-10 minutes max to do the install.

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