On 06/08/2009, at 12:20 PM, Brian Risbey wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have just installed latest update, so is it possible to create a
system disk, on a dvd, similar to one that comes with a new machine,
from current system? So if all goes wrong, er never has... I could
just do a fresh install. (Yes, I use Time Machine.)
MacBook Pro 2.6
10.5.8
Thank you
Brian
You use Time machine.... which should mean you have an external hard
drive .
You would do better to split your external drive into 2 voliumes , one
of them small but
large enough to hold a working system , the other for time machine .
Make it bootable Firewire on PPC Mac but possibly USB on some intel
Macs.
That way if you are in trouble you can run off the external drive
while you housekeep on the
troublesome system , at worse copy back the system from the external
drive .
Superduper or carbon copy cloner is your friend .
DVD is about 4.5Gb , Double layer will get you about 9 GB ,
either way not large enough to hold a full working system .
my 2cents
Bob
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