Disk Image for new IBooks

I just purchased 11 new Ibooks for my school and am interested in loading up the first one with all of our software that we use and then creating a disk image of the hard drive to then install the software on the other 10. Is this possible and a good idea?

You could always set up the first "golden" iBook the way you want.
Grab another iBook.
Boot this other iBook in Firewire target disk mode and connect it to the "golden" iBook.
Use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the "golden" iBook's hard drive to this other iBook.
Repeat the steps above until all of your iBook's are done.
You may also want to take a look at radmind.

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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility_features_of_Firefox

Replaced HD yesterday Was able to restore from Time Machine Now, it won't back up to Time Machine. I removed the TM and tried to add it- the error is "The disk image for "computername.sparsebundle" is in use. Try ejecting the disk image - How do I do?

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Hello jfilbey,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Power cycle the disk Time Machine is backing up to.
For more information on this, take a look at:
Time Machine: Troubleshooting backup issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Best of luck,
Mario

How do I create a disk image for windows 7, using a windows computer for USB bootcamp for mac?

Hi There, I have just bought a new 2013 iMac.
Spec: 3.4 GHz intel core i5, 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Memory , NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 MB Graphics with OS X 10.9.4.
How can I create a 'disk image' from a windows 7 professional 64bit installation DVD using a windows laptop with windows 7 Operating system on? I want to transfer this 'disk image' (ISO?) to a USB ready for installing windows onto my 2013 iMac using bootcamp? I want to use bootcamp from a USB as I have no disk drive for the installation DVD on my iMac. I hope all this is clear.
Thank you. Joe

Yes, that's correct, at least not directly. You can create a blank disk image, copy the file to the mounted disk image, then burn the image to a CD/DVD.
Open Disk Utility and select Blank Disk Image from the New menu. Provide a name, Save location, and select the image size from the drop down menu. Leave Encryptions at None and Format as read/write. Click on the Create button.
After the image file appears the "removable" disk should be automatically mounted. If not double-click on it to mount it. A "removable" disk icon will appear. Drag the file you want to place on the disk image to the "removable" disk icon. The eject the "removable" disk icon. Now select the disk image file in the DU left side list and click on the Burn icon in the DU toolbar. Be sure to have a blank disc ready.
The above is actually the "long" way to do this. A much easier way is to simply insert a blank CD or DVD into the optical drive. The Finder will pop up a dialog asking what to do. Select the option to mount on the Desktop. You will now see a disc icon on the Desktop. Drag the file you want to burn to the CD/DVD, right-click or CTRL-click on the disc icon and select Burn from the contextual menu.
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How do i find or replace the missing disk image for my HD

How do i find or replace the missing disk image? for my HD ........as it is missing when i try to back up with time machine,
i asked for assistance the other day with time machine
now i have worked out this is the reason i can not back up with TM, due to no disk image in my portable hard drive
I saw a post on youtube where it explains you can copy a your HD disk imag from your time machine back ups enabeling, time machine to back up
But i can not find where the TM Back up driver is situated in my TM Back up's
Some advice would be greatly appreceate as i am rather new to Mackintosh
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Aiden

Hi again.
Just re-reading your first post, I wonder if you're confusing a disk image backup with Time Machine?
It's certainly possible to create a disc image of your Macintosh HD and copy it to an external drive.
However, as a backup that method has a drawback; you can't boot from a disc image directly. It needs to be mounted on a bootable system before it can be used. So it's not really much use if the internal HD fails, at least as far as allowing you to carry on working while the repair is carried out.
Much better (and simpler) is to clone the whole drive to the external using CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper (there are plenty of others, but those appear to be the most popular).
That will give you a bootable backup which can be kept up to date by incremental backups using the same applications.
In the event of total internal HD failure all you need to do is replace the drive then boot from the clone and reverse clone to the internal to get up and running again.
Many of us use both a bootable clone and Time Machine (on seperate drives) as each has it's different uses.

Using disk images for learning games?

Hello, I've 2 g3 imacs running 9.2.2, and they are for the grandkids to use learning games on.
The kids are very hard on the software disks. When I found out about disk images I made them up, now to install them properly. The games are installed, but where to store the disk images? The desk top icons for the games will work after the disk images have been double clicked and the mounted disk image appears on the desktop, but when the imacs are turned off the mounted disk image is lost. How or where does one put the disk images in a safe place so the kids don't get at them, and the disks are mounted every time, without actually starting, when the Mac is started? Start up menu?
I'm planning on multiple accounts with them having a standard account with game privileges so they don't mess the whole thing up. If their accounts get too messed up for me to repair I figured on maybe deleting the account and opening up a new one? Any Ideas are very welcome.
Thank you,
EZ

Hi, EZ -
You're quite welcome.
I had a thought with regard to the disk image files. Are they in a .smi format, or are they in a .img format?
The .img format requires the assistance of the Disk Copy utility in order to mount the image. This is the standard format generated by the user version of Disk Copy. It requires that Disk Copy be available to Finder to act as a helper app in order to mount the image.
The .smi format does not - .smi stands for Self-Mounting Image. The user version of Disk Copy can not make this format; but I have seen a utility to convert .img format to .smi format. The slight advantage with this format is that Disk Copy does not need to be available to Finder.
In both cases the default is to run a checksum verification before the image is finally mounted. The delay caused by this verification can be inconvenient - verification is intended to confirm the integrity of the image after it has been copied, transported, or downloaded, but is usually not necessary when the image resides on a hard drive.
The checksum verification for .img file types can be removed. With the image not mounted, open Disk Copy. In Disk Copy's Preferences (Edit menu), uncheck the Verify Checksum item. Save the Preferences window. Then select Convert Image from the Image menu, navigate to the disk imge file from which you want to remove the verifiaction, select it and click the Open button. A new window will appear, similar to a Save As type window. Leave everything in that window untouched (unless you want to change the base name of the file - the extension .img should be left intact) and click the Save button. The image will be mounted, the original disk image file will be deleted, and a new disk image file created. Unfortunately creating the new image file takes quite a while since it is creating a new one, not actually modifying the old one - but it does get rid of the intrusion of the checksum verification requirement.
I verified on my G4/500 running OS 9.1 that a .img file (one I had made from a game CD years ago) dropped into the Startup Items folder will be mounted automatically at the end of the startup sequence. I also tested with an alias to the .img file, and it, too, worked fine - the disk image was mounted automatically at the conclusion of the startup sequence.
When you make the alias to the disk image file (the .img one), be sure you are placing it into the Startup Items folder, and not the Startup Items (disabled) folder.
If you have the machine set to use Simple Finder (which removes Finder's keyboard commands and many menu options for Finder), that may interfere with items in the Startup Items folder being run at startup. Or, it may not - I have not checked that.
*** Edit ***
I have verified that the alias to a .img file will mount the disk image even when the machine is booted using Simple Finder.
Another thought, related to Multiple Users - if you do decide to set up Multiple Users, and the disk images are of type .img, be sure to authorize Disk Copy for each of the accounts for which the disk images are to be mounted. If you have the disk image files in a .smi format, since Finder views that file type as being an application, you would need to authorize each of those disk image files for each account which is to have access to them.

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I created a data dvd of information for work on my iMac by dragging the folders that I needed onto the DVD. I then burned it in my super drive. I put the completed DVD into a pc and navigated through the files.
I created an image file (dmg and cdr) of the DVD on my iMac for future use in case someone else wanted a copy of the information.
When I burn the dmg or cdr image to a DVD, I can navigate through it with my iMac without any problems but when I put DVD into a PC, the PC says that it is a blank disk.
I guess my question is, how do I create an image so that I can burn it and use it on either a mac or a pc?

I created the image from a disk. I put the DVD I wanted to image in the super drive, opened Disk Utility, selected the DVD from the left side of the Disk Utility window. I then went to the menu: File - New - Disk Image From <Name of the DVD>. I tried to use different image formats (Read/Write, DVD/CD Master).
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Hi - I'm preparing to send my G4 Pbook (10.4.11) for repair.
It was recommended that I make a disk image of the HD "just in case".
So I booted from the original install disc (10.3), launched Disk Util and made a new image on an external drive. Read only, not compressed. About 3 hours later I had a DI and decided to "verify" it. It would not. So I rebooted from the normal system and tried to mount the new DI. It would not and gave a message "the DMG is faulty and it may damage your hard drive if you mount it". So I trashed it, emptied the trash and used DU to erase that external drive in ready for the next try.
DU Help files are short and pretty clear. What did I do wrong? Can someone please give me a procedure I can succeed with?
TIA
d2

Don't make a disc image. You cannot boot from one and they can be finicky. They are not what you want. Instead you want to clone your hard drive to an external Firewire hard drive. It's done as follows:
How to Clone Using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the drive to which you will restore or backup.
Source means the drive you are restoring from or backing up.

Unable to create a disk image for mass deployment or to restore on other

I am attempting to create a master 10.5 Leopard image that can be deployed to other Macs, but the restore process fails with the following error:
*Restore Failure. Could not find any scan information. The source image needs to be imagedscanned/scanned for restore.*
I setup the master as I want it. I've booted from another drive and used Disk Utility to create a new image from Folder. (If I try to create a new image from drive, I get an error that the disk is in use.) I've run the checksum. I've run the scan image for restore. All process with out any errors.
The error mentioned above occurs when I try to restore the image to another computer.
Has anyone else been able to make a master image for deployment without using Leopard Server?

Hello,
I am also getting a similar error, but not trying to create an image, but rather reading one I created before upgrading to Leopard. I was having some HD trouble (power surge during install of Quicktime 7.3) that put my HD in any unstable state (resistant to Disk Utility/Disk Warrior,) but fortunately, I'd cloned the HD w/ SuperDuper (anticipating possible trouble during the upgrade.) I then made a disk image of the BOOTCAMP partition on another drive. Now, after re-formatting the HD, installing Leopard and partitioning for Bootcamp, I am unable to scan the image before restoring the disk image to the HD. It might be a FAT32 thing, but I don't think so.
The error is: Unable to scan "disk0s3.dmg". (Invalid argument)
The disk utility log is:
2007-11-08 20:33:43 +0100: Scanning image “disk0s3.dmg”
2007-11-08 20:33:53 +0100: cannot scan read/write images.
2007-11-08 20:33:53 +0100: Unable to scan “disk0s3.dmg”. (Invalid argument)
2007-11-08 20:33:53 +0100:
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I want to store all my financial files somewhere securely....encrypted and password protected. It seems my choices are either a jump drive or disk image. If I use the disk image on my Pro, I'll have to be able to back it up to an external drive for storage at another location. Is one method better than the other?

Well, I personally would go with a hardware encryption method over a software method. I have encrypted USB memory sticks, and they are not cheap, but they work seemlessly between my Mac and my Windows computers. I have used hardware encrypted external hard drives, and they have worked just as easily for me. The beauty there is that you don't need to install any software on a computer to use them. The drawback is that when they fail, you have much less hope of recovering your data, but since this is critical information, you are keeping it backed up somewhere (securely), so that is less of a concern.
There are plenty of good software choices as well, some of which are even free.
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I'll be using the mac for the iLife software mostly. iMovie, iPhoto and Garageband. How much do you think the price difference and speed difference will be? I'm pretty sure I'm sticking with the MacBook Pro. I've got the stock 1.83 on order, after rebates it will cost me about $1890.

If the Intel iBook (or non-"pro" MacBook) is announced at apples anouncement next week people should be able to know more specifically about how it compares and what the price should be.
Many speculate a 13" widescreen MacBook with a single intel processor will be comeing out that should be comperable in speed to the current powerbook (or faster). This is all spec but people do know its coming.
People also think it is going to be annoucned at the event and availble around april. I am keeping my MBP on order and then if something peaks my interest at the annoucement I have time to switch.
I think it depends on price and actual performance, since noone knows exactly what the new iBook is yet its hard to speculate at this time.

Best way to make disk images for game disks?

I want to play my beloved Battlefield 1942 on my Air... and I realized that I need the disk! ...Is there a way to turn the game disk into an image and "launch" it so the program thinks it's in the diskdrive, etc?
I looked in DiskUtility, and I was a bit unsure what kind of image to make it.
tia,
e

<font "size=+1">Duplicate a CD or DVD
1. Insert the DVD/CD;
2. Open Disk Utility, and select the DVD/CD from the left side list (select the DVD/CD icon on top);
3. from the DU File menu select New | Disk Image from Disk 1;
4. Choose to format the disk image as DVD/CD Master, name the disk image and click Save;
5. When the .cdr file is finished select it with mouse and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info and check the box to lock the file;
6. Choose the .cdr file from the left side list, click Burn, and insert a new, blank DVD or CD.
You can skip the last step if you don't want to burn the image to a CD or DVD. There is no guarantee this will work since many games will only work with a CD or DVD rather than a mounted image of one.

Copy Disk Image to New Disk Image

Hi. I have a disk image that is in sparsebundle form and has a total size of 9.61gb. When I mount the image, it results in a volume with 8.53gb used and 15.97gb capacity. Let's say that I wanted to move this entire volume to a new partition that is only 10gb in size. I should technically be able to do this since the files only take up 9.61gb, right? I can't seem to move it to a new volume, or disk image with a capacity less than 15.97gb. Is there a way that I can work around this? Basically I just want to create a new volume with total capacity approx 10gb and copy the files over. I tried using disk utility and restoring but I keep getting an error about not enough space. Any thoughts would be helpful, thanks!

See if you can reduce the size of the existing sparse bundle, per #A8 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
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Buying MIcrosoft Office for new iBook

Hello,
I don't know if this is the right place for this question, but I couldn't find anywhere else to ask it. I just got a new G4 iBook (haven't even booted it up yet!), and I want to get started on the right foot. (My G3 iBook's hard drive is cluttered up with excess applications, etc.)
I need to get MS Office for the new iBook. I am academic, so I'm eligible for the Academic Price of $149. I'm also on a low budget, and I'm wondering if I can get it cheaper, for example on ebay. Are the versions on ebay legit, registerable versions, or somehow bootlegged or otherwise problematic? How do I know this by looking at the ad?
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...for example on ebay. Are the versions on ebay legit, registerable versions, or somehow bootlegged or otherwise problematic? How do I know this by looking at the ad?
Buyer beware. There is no way that you can absolutely guarantee the integrity of those packages.
Also, I see that there's going to be a new version (Office 2007) coming out later this year.
No, it is Office 2008 not Office 2007. See this link.

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