making a bootable disc
 

how do you go about making a bootable disc from a dmg? ive got toast titanium. running an imac g4 superdrive with panther.
thanks for your time
timski

To be honest I haven't done it with Toast 6. the last bootable disk I did was with Toast 5. Both of which I still use. You know don't you that even with the official startup disks for OSX that you need to hold the 'C' key for it to start up unless you previously selected it by the startup prefs. So I wouldn't be over-concerned about that really. In OS 9 Startup disks were easy to compile (I used to create open disk images/temp partitions that I added items to &):

Making a Bootable CD: The CD you create is bootable on a Macintosh system. Note: This feature is available only on Mac OS 9.1 or later.

1 Make sure Toast is open and the Toast window is active. 2 In the Toast window, click Data. 3 To see the Data formats pop-up menu, click the format name. 4 In the pop-up menu, choose either Mac OS CD or Mac OS and PC (Hybrid) CD. You cannot create a bootable CD with the Mac OS Extended choices on the menu. If you try, after you click Record, Toast will display a message indicating that a bootable Mac OS Extended CD is not possible. 5 Drag the appropriate blessed System Folder into the data window. Make sure you have the correct System Folder for the computer you plan to boot from the CD you are creating. Apple places different items in the System Folder, according to the specific computer where it is used. 6 Change the name "Untitled CD" to the name you want the CD to have when it mounts on your desktop. 7 Drag additional data you want to copy to the Data window. 8 After collecting all the data you want, insert a CD into your CD-Recorder. 9 Click the Record button. 10 In the Record dialog box, click Write Disc. The writing process begins at the selected speed. When all the data is written, Toast pauses briefly, then automatically verifies the data. (You can prevent verification by clicking Eject during the pause.) 11 When you see the message, "Verification completed successfully," click Eject

Re: making a bootable disc
 

The quick and dirty way is to use the donation-ware BootCD:

http://www.charlessoft.com/

which lets you make a bootable disc image and put some things on it apart from the system. Trial and error will show which of the things you put on it work and which don't.

A better but harder way is to create a bootable volume from scratch and burn from that. In theory this is the procedure:

- First get a hard disc or partition that you can reformat and use temporarily just for this.
- Install OS X on it.
- Boot into it.
- Install everything you want on it.

Check the size of what is on it. It must be less than 700 MB total (the capacity of a CD). This is the hard part.

If it's too big, I can't say how to make it smaller. It will probably be a bit under 2,000 MB. In that case you have three options:

- Repeat the whole procedure, minimising what you put on it.
- Throw away whatever you can from it.
- Leave it big but burn to a DVD instead of a CD and boot from that instead.

That's the easy part:
- Put Toast into Mac Volume mode.
- Click once on the icon of the volume that has all the new data you have created.
- Drag it and drop onto Toast and burn it.

You can also burn from Apple's Disc Utility.

There's also a utility called BootCD which does the same thing. It creates the min needed items for bootup disk & creates a disk image. You can add whatever to it.

I totally forgot about that. I found it was very slow booting when I tried it out.

Quite so. Takes me 8 minutes to boot on a G4 400. But then, an optimised DiskWarrior CD (latest version) takes longer and Norton Utilites 3 much, much longer still. That may because they have older operating systems on them.