Duplicating Mac OSX Operating System
I had a crash on my Apple MBP over here in Mexico. And to make it even worse the Operating CDs were in Spain.
My next visit in Spain I made a copy of the 2 CDs as mentioned in the Apple Help (making an image .dmg) and then burn it to a CD (I used a DVD +R due to space reasons).
The trouble is that the MBP won't boot from the copy.
What did I do wrong? How can I make copies of CDs (Mac OSX, iLife08, iWork08, Intego, ...) so that the copies will "act" the same the original do (bootable)?
Many thanks and greetings from Mexico,
Peter
Zhuan,
a bootable CD or DVD cannot just be copied like audio media. It has to be assigned a master property. Look here:
http://www.index-site.com/bootcd.html
Hans
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