Copied Leopard DVDs performing differently?

A friend who went to an Apple Store had a "Genius" mention to them that copies made of the Leopard DVD wouldn't be able to access "emergency boot options." I'm not quite sure what she was talking about when she refers to "emergency" boot options, because I've booted from copied DVDs of Leopard and it seems to work just fine. But it gets to the larger question: is there any reason that a burnt copy of DVD will perform differently than the original copy of Leopard?
This question was of interest to me, since I bought the Family Pack, and do indeed have copies of Leopard floating around my house that I burnt from the original DVD. (I'm not a fan of pirating software; in this case, it didn't seem too far out of line for me to do since I paid for 5 copies.)

A copy is a copy. I cloned my install disk to a 10 Gb partition on an external drive. Now if I need to repair permissions or anything I just boot from that partition. Burning a back up of software you legally own is not considered piracy.

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I am in the process of updating the os of my macbook pro and have installed from the snow leopard dvd and did the 10.6.8 combo v1.1 as well and wis to update further but i now cannot get preview so i am concerned about going forward. how to get prev

I am updating the OS on my MacBook Pro from 10.5.8. I have installed 10.6.8 and the 10.6.8 combo v1.1. I cannot open my older version of Preview and do not appear to have a newer version which i thought would be on the Snow Leopard dvd. How can I get the correct version of Preview and is it advisable to upgrade to OS7 andOS8?

It is always installed with whatever new version of OS X is installed or appropriate updates. Since you plan to go forward your choice depends on your model. I would urge you to perform a clean install instead of continuing the upgrade path which may interject incompatibilities.
Upgrading to Yosemite
You can upgrade to Yosemite from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Yosemite can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for FREE.
Upgrading to Yosemite
To upgrade to Yosemite you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Download Yosemite from the App Store. Sign in using your Apple ID. Yosemite is free. The file is quite large, over 5 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.
    OS X Mavericks/Yosemite - System Requirements
    Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Yosemite
         1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 7,1 or later
         2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 5,1 or later
         3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 2,1 or later
         5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         7. Xserve (Early 2009) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
To find the model identifier open System Profiler in the Utilities folder. It's displayed in the panel on the right.
     Are my applications compatible?
         See App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps.
Upgrading to Lion
If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Yosemite, it may still meet the requirements to install Lion.
You can purchase Lion at the Online Apple Store. The cost is $19.99 (as it was before) plus tax. It's a download. You will get an email containing a redemption code that you then use at the Mac App Store to download Lion. Save a copy of that installer to your Downloads folder because the installer deletes itself at the end of the installation.
     Lion System Requirements
       1. Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7,
           or Xeon processor
       2. 2GB of memory
       3. OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
       4. 7GB of available space
       5. Some features require an Apple ID; terms apply.
Before attempting a clean install you want to first download the appropriate installer application from the App Store. It will download into your Applications folder. You need to make a copy of it in your Downloads folder so you can make a bootable USB flash drive:
Make Your Own Mavericks, Mountain/Lion Installer
After downloading the installer you must first save the Install Mac OS X application. After the installer downloads DO NOT click on the Install button. Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the installer. Move the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes installing.
   2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select your flash drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the leftside list. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list.
Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to an hour depending upon the flash drive size.
Use DiskMaker X to put your installer clone onto the USB flash drive.
Make your own Yosemite flash drive installer using the Yosemite tool:
You can also create a Yosemite flash drive installer via the Terminal. Yosemite has its own built-in installer maker you use via the Terminal:
How to Make an OS X Yosemite Boot Installer USB Drive

IMac will not boot from Snow Leopard DVD or original Leopard disc!

Hey,
I am going mad! I am trying to update my iMac (with original Leopard installed) to Snow Leopard. Here is what I have tried:
Using the Snow Leopard DVD:
- A standard install: the disc ejects after about 15 minutes.
- Put another working DVD in and verified it in Disk Utility, all ok.
- Verified the internal hard drive in Disk Utility, all ok.
- Verfied the SL DVD, all ok.
- Decided to try a clean install, so backed up everything.
- Tried to boot from SL DVD by using the Utilities option, it ejects the disc at restart.
- Tried to force it to boot to the DVD by restarting and holding the C key, it ejects.
- Restart holding the Option key, it ejects.
- Restart holding the Ctrl, Alt and Option keys, ejects.
- Everytime it ejects and starts up normally.
- So I cleaned the disc, updated all the firmware, reset the NVRAM/PRAM via holding keys when restarting, and repaired disc permissions.
- Tried to force it to boot again, ejects.
- Tried to put the disc back in straight after it ejects with all the steps, still starts up normally.
- Changed the start up disc in System Preferences to the SL DVD, restart, it ejects.
By now I am readying the noose...
- Dug out the original Leopard installation CDs.
- Repeated all the forced boot restarts (C key, Option key, Ctrl, Alt, Option keys), same story.
- Repeated changing the start up disc in System Prefs, same story again.
- Call Apple Support, they told me to try everything I have tried and that the DVD drive is dodgy, well it works with everyhting else! Burning and reading! I really don't want to have to go to an Apple Store- it's miles away (a costly journey) and I just do not have the time for all of this.
RAWR! Does anyone know what to do? Please? S.O.S.?

Possible scenarios:
1: The 10.6.3 SL retail disk is bad, it happens.
2: Your not using the 10.6.3 SL retail disk but one from another machine which doesn't have the drivers for that machine.
3: Your optical drive is funky or some other hardware issues.
4: Your trying to install 10.6 onto a PowerPC based Mac, no can do.
5: Your not using a wired keyboard for boot key commands, have some other hardware conflicts.
Possible solutions.
1: Copy the SL 10.6.3 disk using Disk Utility to another DVD, the error checking may resolve the original disk's issue.
http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2011/10/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-l eopard-install-disc/
2: Make a SL bootable USB
http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html
3: Call Apple for a new 10.6.3 disk (and make copies for backup before Apple discontinues selling it)
If your upgrading to 10.6 to get to 10.6.8 to upgrade to 10.7, be warned of this:
1: Your 10.5 software will not work in 10.7, no more Rosetta or PPC based code.
2: Your hardware will not qualify if it's a 32 bit Intel Core Duo, also you may experience slowdowns in performance over 10.6 (10.6 is the fastest OS X version for Intel Macs) in older Intel hardware (I suggest Early 2011 Mac's and later only for Lion)
3: Mountain Lion 10.8 is reportingly coming out this summer and will not run on a lot of older Intel based Mac's because of heftier graphics requirements.
4: 10.6 has the widest range of current avaialble software and drivers for third party hardware.
My advice, stick with 10.6.8 and stay there, buy a new Mountain Lion machine after this summer. Skip Lion completely.

Clean install Lion with Snow Leopard DVD

I want to perform a clean install of my Macbook Pro, currently running the latest version of Lion, upgraded from Snow Leopard via the App Store). When performing a clean install I have to use my Snow Leopard DVD. After this installation is completed, do I have to purchase the Lion upgrade again in the App Store?
I want to add a second hard disk (replacing the DVD with an SSD) in my Macbook Pro 17" (mid 2010). When I mount the root (/) on the SSD and /Home to my current hard disk, is it still possible to perform a restore instead of a clean install?
Any suggestions/remarks are welcome.

Not exactly. Time Machine looks for compatible Drive Partitions, it does not care what folders you have on that drive or what the current working folder is. When doing a recovery, TM will first install a virgin copy of Lion, then it will give you a list of all the backed up data it found on your backup drive so you can decide what gets installed (likely everything). Then you reboot, login and run Software Update.
You do not need that SSD. In fact, I don't reccomend it. All you need is a blank USB or Firewire drive. Jack it into your MAC and install Lion on it. Then you can boot from that drive and do whatever you want to your main disk.
Lion creates 2 partitions. One is small and holds the installer and the usual utilities. Great idea, but if your drive ever fails or has a partition problem your toast. So I always make a DVD. Use Google to find instructions on how to make it.
You don't need to install or boot 10.6 to do any of this.
There are reasons you would need to wipe your disk and start over. But these reasons are very few. Don't make a lot of work for yourself if you don't have to.

Is it possible to upgrade a G4 Xserve with an ISO image of a Leopard DVD?

I have a G4 Xserve (tray load) with only a CD drive. Leopard is on DVD only. I created an ISO image of the Leopard DVD but it will not work. Not sure why. I copied it to the Hard Drive of the Xserve and also tried it from an external drive (not booted from that drive however).
Any suggestions? Was trying to avoid booting into target disk mode. I only have an Intel laptop and not sure this would work anyway either.
All assistance is appreciated.
Lisa

Did not work for me. Tried copying it directly to Xserve desktop, to a partitioned drive, to an external firewire drive. Nothing.
Sharing out the laptop DVD drive and booting to target mode did work, however. Very very VERY slow, like over 3 hours slow, but it worked.
All up and running now.
thanks again,
Lisa

How Come the iMac Can't Boot Snow Leopard DVDs Anymore Under Lion and ML?

Hi. I'm using ML as my main OS but I noticed when after installing Mountain Lion it doesn't recognize and just ejects the Snow Leopard DVD installers that came with my Mac (you could boot to it when the iMac had Snow Leopard). It doesn't see it as bootable anymore (it doesn't appear as bootable when you boot then press option nor does Startup in System Preferences see it as bootable. The DVD's are in good condition coz' it's not used that often):
Windows 7 Ultimate & Windows 8 Release Preview installer on a DVD-RW which is sees as blank (but it works find on a PC).
Only Snow Leopard that's in a USB (not sure how they made that but it was made for me by Apple repair center). I did back the SL DVDs years ago as .cdr (Master). I'm not sure if the .cdr images of the original SL DVDs can be burned into dual layer DVDs and work like the original (how do you go about that? Do you just burn .cdr like you would with .iso or .dmg?)
I think the hidden recovery partition starting with Lion is actually preventing DVDs from SL to lower versions from being recognized as bootable. Same with bootable Windows DVD-RW as Apple and the rest of the industry (I noticed netbooks now have recovery partitions too) switch to hidden partition and USB installers instead of medias like DVDs and CDs. I would guess if you could install Snow Leopard using an SL USB installer and complete erase the main hardisk along with the hidden recovery partition, install Snow Leopard it'll recognize Windows burned in DVD-RW again.
I can't install Bootcamp coz' it sees Windows 7 & 8 installers as blank drives, even Windows USB installers are not bootable (both USB and DVD-RW installers work fine on the PC). I'm thinking of disabling the iMac's Superdrive by moving in a folder or renaming its driver/extension IOSDVDStorageFamily.kext maybe tomorrow so hopefully when BootCamp sees that the iMac doesn't have an optical drive it'll show the Create USB Installer option (now it only show 2 options) so that it'll create the installers into the Flash drive.
I'm anxious of booting the USB Snow Leopard Installer and erasing the drive completely along with ML's recovery partition then installing SL in the hardisk because my Time Machine backup could get messed up. It might not restore the ones backedup by Lion and ML, although I could manually copy paste the documents but that'll defeat the main purpose of having a Time Machine backup.
Has anyone experienced this too with their Snow Leopard DVDs and Windows USB installers? Any solutions?
Thank you in advance.
God bless.

Zap the PRAM and Reset the SMC, then try again.

Restoring Leopard DVD to a disc

I'm not asking for advice but leaving some of my experiences installing Leopard to the small % of people who may benefit.
I've completed around 50 Leopard installs on my Mac Pro. This is my hobby, to learn. Every install has gone fine, just the normal left over Leopard bugs which will be fixed in up coming releases. Just like Jaquar, Panther and Tiger was fixed.
This was my usual plan: take the Leopard DVD then use the restore function in Leopard's Disk Utility to copy that DVD either to a partition on an external firewire hard drive or an internal hard drive on my Mac Pro. Reason for this was to speed up the installation time.
The past few days I have been smitten with many unusual problems on my Mac Pro after installing Leopard from one of the partitions never the DVD. Its odd because many of the problems have been similar ones which I have read but could not reproduce in these discussion posts.
I've spent many hours trying to figure out the cause of my install problem. I examined my normal scenario which was : 1) always use Leopard's Disk Utility to partition or erase any of my hard drives 2) boot into a previously INSTALLED Leopard system before doing the DVD restore to hard drive.
I've gotten lazy and impatient the last few days so I by-passed my assumptions. I would boot up the Leopard DVD as normal and use Disk Utility as normal. Then because I had wiped out all my Leopard drives I had no installed Leopard system. So here comes the root cause: I did the restore to hard drive using Leopard Disk Utility as the Leopard DVD was booted up and active ie (ready to install the Leopard OS). I will not do this anymore.
Here are some of the issues when I did the restore improperly:
1) after system boot , Time Machine never comes up as normal
2) trouble dragging my firewire icons to privacy in Spotlight, can't do it
3) Login& Keychain would not give the update boot cache during restart
4) 10.5.1 update would not either, only the Quicktime 7.3 install
5) occasionally during boot cache update I'd wait an abnormally long time and the Mac Pro would not restart(stuck in an endless loop), had to do a hard restart
6) short name was being used when it should not have
I did not explore this further for other types of problems because I got sick of the ones I experienced.
Now when I do a Leopard install, I check two things before installing any other software and wasting time: 1) open Mail and on the first window is the proper name shown or is it the short name and 2) once I install iWork '08 to check Pages. Open preference and under General preferences check if the Author is the proper name or the short name. If Mail and Pages fail then I would start over. I did a few full program installs and the ownership issue does not go away.
I'm not saying Leopard is not worthy but only stressing that since Leopard can be a Universal boot installer on Intel and PPC Macs that I have had new experiences since '86 which derailed me.
One last piece of information: I finally tried the restore to firewire partition of the Leopard DVD partitioned to APM from my powerbook G4. It doess boot and install properly on PPC and Intel Macs.
Hopefully a few of you will benefit from my experience and settle into a love affair with Leopard.

Oh forgot two other symptoms of the no good restore install;
Mac Pro was obviously slow and sluggish and I could take the widget after activating them and drag along the tear tearing it in pieces and making the dock just disappear slowly in chunks.

Restoring my System with Time Machine to a new HD without the Snow Leopard DVD

Hi there,
I changed my HD in my MacBook Pro to a bigger one and then wanted to Restore the System via Time Machine onto that new HD. Sadly I dont have the Snow Leopard DVD that was coming with the MacBook. Though I have another Snow Leopard DVD, that I purchased earlier for my older Mac. Now the Problem:
When I try to Boot the Macbook Pro from the older Snow Leopard DVD it always freezes and says: "You have to restart your Macbook. Press the power button until it switches off and then press the button again". But iwill not boot from the DVD.
Is there another possibility to Restore my System from my Time Machine Backup to the new HD?
Kind Regards
Lounginbob

lounginBob wrote:
Though I have another Snow Leopard DVD, that I purchased earlier for my older Mac.
You can't use a machine specific OS X install disk with another model of Mac.
It has to do with hardware drivers being on one disk and not applicable to another machine, why you get the kernel panic.
Is there another possibility to Restore my System from my Time Machine Backup to the new HD?
No. You need the OS X install disk.
Choices depending on what your machine is:
1: If your machine with the missing OS X install disk originally came with 10.6.3 or later, call Apple for machine specific replacement disks, there will be a fee of course. That's the only ones that will work.
2: If your machine originally came with 10.6.2 or earlier, you can choose to buy the 10.6.3 retail disk from Apple online, however it contains no free iLife. It comes faster.
3: If your machine originally came with 10.0 - 10.6.2, and you want the free iLife, then order the machine specific versions from Apple, however it might take longer.
4: If your machine originally came with 10.5, and your now on 10.6.x via the 10.6.3 retail disk, you can extract the free iLife from the 10.5 disks using Pacifist from CharlesSoft if you don't want to buy iLife.
You will need this disk regardless in case you need to #18 Reinstall Just OS X or #20 Erase and Install OS X or perform #4-#6 repair proceedures:
Step by Step to fix your Mac
Is there another possibility...
Yes, once you have gotten a new OS X install disk, consider making bootable clones.
It's software that can clone your entire OS X drive/partition (no Bootcamp or Filevaulted) to another external drive and you can easily hold the option key to boot from it.
Most commonly used backup methods explained

Why leopard DVD not installing to powerbook G4 with Mac OS X 10.3.9? Help.

I'm trying to install leopard DVD to my daughter's powerbook G4 with os x 10.3.9. During the installation process, it says unable to install 10.5, mac os x 10.4 or later could not be found.....how am I gonna do this. Please help...

gzleearl,
Once an OS has been installed, the point upgrades, such as 10.1.x to 10.1.5 (Final) 10.2.x to 10.2.8 (Final), 10.3.x to 10.3.9 (Final), 10.4.x to 10.4.11 (Final), and 10.5.x to 10.5.6 (Pending), can be downloaded for free.
If your Mac meets the Leopard System Requirements, the Full Retail Version, of the Leopard Install DVD, can be purchased at The Apple Store (U.S.), Apple retail stores, Apple resellers, and some Online vendors.
If you know what to look for a Full Retail Version, of the Leopard Install DVD, can be purchased, sometimes less expensively, at some online Apple retailers, Amazon, eBay, FastMac, HardCore Mac, etc.
As you have discovered be sure not to purchase grey, upgrade or machine specific CDs or DVDs.
Tiger and Leopard are on DVD.
The disc should look exactly like the images in the above links, and not say Upgrade, CPU Drop-in DVD, or "This software is part of a hardware bundle purchase - not to be sold seperately." on it.
Caveat Emptor!
If any are presently available, examine these items very carefully, and if in doubt, ask questions of the seller before purchase!
Leopard On eBay
Once Leopard 10.5.x.x is installed, you can use the Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update to upgrade to the current version.
You may also find this Leopard Installation and Setup Guide PDF useful.
The posted RAM System Requirement is the bare minimum.
For optimum performance, more is recommended.
As a precaution, before upgrading the OS, you should create a backup of the entire system, or at least, any data you do not wish to lose or corrupt.
In addition to the Archive & Install procedure, there is also a Simple Upgrade, or an Erase & Install option.
Review the info here About Installation Options.
Specifically; "About Upgrade to Mac OS X
Upgrading to Mac OS X takes a little longer than installing it on a volume without Mac OS X, but it is the least intrusive way to install--most of your existing settings and applications are left untouched during an upgrade. In other words, you won't have to configure a lot of settings afterwards."
ali b

How to separately backup the Boot Camp drivers partition from Leopard DVD?

I used Disk Utility and my only (and expensive) DVD+R DL disc to make a backup copy of my Leopard DVD, and it worked perfectly to install Leopard on my MacBook Pro.
However, that was before I learned that the Boot Camp drivers was now on a separate, PC-only partition on the DVD. So while my backup copy works great to install Leopard, I have no backup of the Boot Camp driver CD.
I tried several tricks, including booting into Windows Vista and using PowerISO to attempt to make an ISO image of the Boot Camp driver partition (shows up as 400 MB or so). However, the ISO image generated is a whopping 7.6 GB, same size as the full Leopard DVD. I then tried to take that back into the Mac OS side, but it was "unmountable". Toast 8 was able to make an image of the full DVD that (I'd presume, as did previous versions of Toast) would contain both partitions of an ISO-9660 volume, but when I mounted that disk image with Toast 8, I didn't get the two-mounted-volume like I'd normally expect to see.
I'd really like to know how to backup this volume - I demo this system regularly on my MacBook for clients, and I don't want to have to keep using my nice, pristine Leopard DVD when I have to do my weekly re-install. Any thoughts on how to get a simple extraction of the actual volume used for the Boot Camp drivers?
Thanks much for the time,
MBJ

Hi Stefan,
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my question! Although I think your steps will "work", per se (and I will try them out as soon as I can), I'm something of a purist in regards to my backups and so this method seems a little hackish as opposed to a process that actually images the volume in question (I'm also curious from a technical perspective, as the Boot Camp Assistant Beta used to allow for a dedicated MacintoshDrivers disc to be burned from it—I liked that method better, to be honest).
Thanks again! I'll keep checking back here for other comments, and will let you know how the method you suggested works out.
Best wishes,
MBJ

Copying a DVD on an new iMac

First, forgive me for sounding like a complete novice. I recently purchased (Christmas 09) an iMac with the latest version of snow leopard, iLife, iWorks, etc.(was a PC user for last 15 years). My son has a DVD that was made for him by another parent of one of his High School basketball games. He needs to send a copy of this DVD to all of the colleges that he applies to. The DVD when it is inserted into the iMac automatically opens and displays a nice menu. Thinking I could figure it out, I inserted the DVD, right clicked on it and saw the commands "copy disk" and "burn disk". I copied the DVD, ejected it, inserted a blank DVD and hit burn disk. It copied and appears to be an exact copy (same folders, same files, etc). But when the copy is inserted into the iMac, it does not open and will not play in the system. With all this software it seems to me that there must be a quick and easy way to copy the DVD so that it will play in computers and home DVD players.
I would appreciate any assistance with step by step instructions on how to accomplish this goal.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Charlie

Sorry, you can't copy a DVD that way. DVDs are in a special format and what you did was create a DATA DVD.
See http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/making_dvdcopies.html for a way to do it with Disk Utility (in your Utilities Folder).

How do I copy to dvd to watch on my normal tv

How do I copy to dvd to watch on my normal tv. I bought it so I assume I own it in the same way as if I bought a dvd from a store, so I would like to sit down and watch my programs and or films I buy on itunes on my normal tv set rather than in my office or on a small screen. If I am unable to do this then there seems little point in decluttering my life from DVD boxes etc to buying online content.

Just like a DVD you buy from a store you limited rights to watch the content you have purchased. For iTunes protected content you are allowed to view and copy it between your autorised devices, not transcribe it to a different format. You can transfer the file between your devices over a computer network, with a memory stick, external drive or data DVD, but copying it to standard DVD Video format is not permitted.
tt2

Backing up Leopard DVD

I made a backup of the Leopard DVD to install several machines (yes I bought the family pack) and discovered that using a Macintosh to make the copy didn't copy the Bootcamp information.
Moral: if you make a backup (and you should) of the Leopard distribution medium you need to make TWO backups, one of which as far as I can tell needs to be made with a Windows machine so you'll have the Boot Camp 2.0 drivers.
There's probably a better way to go about it than the above but one way or another beware...

Jeff Geerling wrote:
2. Click on "Mac OS X Install DVD" (the bottom level).
That is your problem. Counterintuitive as it may seem, select the *DVD drive*, not the "Mac OS X Install DVD" volume below it.
Explanation: the "DVD/CD Master" image format creates bit-for-bit images of whatever you tell it to, but if you tell it to image a volume on a drive, that is all it will image. The Leopard DVD actually has quite a bit more on it than the "Mac OS X Install DVD" volume, including a Driver Descriptor Map, the Bootcamp code, the Apple Partition Map, and (aha!) "AppleDriverATAPI." You need all this to create a clone of the disk that will boot both PPC & Intel Macs. It is about 7.5 GB worth of stuff, only about 7.1 GB of which is in the visible partition (the volume "Mac OS X Install DVD").
BTW, steps 5 through 7 can be simplified: Just select the newly created .cdr file in the D.U. list, click the "Burn" icon & D.U. will helpfully eject the Leopard DVD disk & ask you to insert a DVD blank.
Also, in step 4, name the image whatever you like -- it is an image file & the name of the volume is in there along with everything else. I use something not likely to be confused with anything else, like "Leopard Retail Disk v 10.5.0."
Finally, if you don't know what blanks your drive will burn to, use the handy link at the bottom on the right of D.U.'s window when the DVD drive is selected. It will open System Profiler to the appropriate section, where you will probably find that "+R DL" is listed in the "Write Strategies:" section but "-R DL" is not.

DMG "no mountable file system" created when booting Leopard DVD

I was in the process of rebuilding my managers MacBook but I decided to make a full disc image before messing with any of her data. I plugged in a firewire hard drive and booted off my Leopard DVD. I selected the internal hard drive and clicked the new image button. Saved the image to the external. No errors were reported. Everything ran fine. Made a 50.3GB image file.
I them selected the internal HD and selected Restore and used our corp image file for and restored the internal drive with our image. I rebooted ran some updates joined it to the domain. Now it was ready for her user data. I went to mount the image of her data and it gives me "No mountable files system".
I have tried LOTS of things to get back at her data. I have used Data Rescue II, Disc Warrior, trying terminal commands listed in the following threads:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8036718
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1218394&tstart=0
When I do the command "hdiutil udifxmldet <yourbrokenimage>" it tells me no XML data is present. Data Rescue II shows me all the files in the image but when I try to restore them all the data is 0 bytes. When I scavenge the data files it gives me files with random names and some data but a 2 page PDF file is 100MB and there is no file large enough to be her entourage database. So somehow things are kind of smushed together.
Is there any way to recover this data properly? He last backup, which she is responsible for doing on her own, was 6 weeks ago. But i know I will never hear the end of it if I lose 6 weeks of her data.
Please help if possible. Her MacBook is still under AppleCare and the Leopard DVD is a licensed retail copy though the computer is actually runnning 10.4.11 I used the Leopard dvd to make the image. And yes I tried opening the image with a leopard machine.

If you failed to mount the image after initially creating the image (a bootable backup/clone would have been a better option); then, I surmise that her stuff is gone. Sorry, but I have nothing else to offer.

BRAND NEW Mac Pro won't boot from Leopard DVD, kernel panics!

I just received my brand new Mac Pro today. It's a BTO machine with the upgrade to the NVIDIA 8800GT, a second optical drive and a Mac OS X Server license. The system has Mac OS X server installed on the default 320GB drive. I decided to use the server license as a virtual machine running in Leopard client. So, I installed 2 new 500GB Seagate 7200.11 (Retail) drives in the machine, zeroed them out in prep for installing Leopard client.
At this point, I pop in a freshly-purchased retail copy of the Leopard DVD and restart. When I try to boot from the DVD and install Leopard to one of the new Seagate drives, I get kernel panics - need to restart the machine. Also tried booting from the Mac OS X Server DVD and this too only caused kernel panics. The DVD's read perfectly from within Mac OS X Server and boot from hard disks is flawless.
I spent an hour on the phone with a level 2 tech at Apple - Tried swapping out the RAM and moving around the DIMMS to no avail. I am at a loss to what this could be. Seems to be a hardware issue and the tech thought it was likely a problem with one of the memory risers but couldn't send replacements. Anyone else with a similar issue?
This is my first Mac and it looks like this Mac Pro is going back for an exchange and I'll have to wait yet another 10-12 days for a replacement to arrive. Bummer.
Am I missing something simple here? Does this seem to be a hardware issue?
If anyone has any ideas before I ship this one back, please write!!!

New Mac Pros will not install the Leopard retail disc. They will only install the Leopard disc which shipped with them labeled Mac Pro. That has always been true. Macs can only boot the system that ships on DVD in the box that came with them, and newer retail releases. They can never boot from an older retail release than what shipped in the box.

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