Can anyone suggest how to get a good DVD copy of the TIGER Install Disk for my son who is away at school?

I bought a FAMILY PACK so I've paid for the use of it and am NOT selling it or doing anything illegal. Just keeping it in the family but, want a Boot disk with each machine.

Specific details would be helpful, please. I can follow instructions, but need them to be step-by-step since I am still learning many things after many years of being a Mac user. This I'm new to.

Thank you.

Hmm don't know if I should be doing this. And another mod may come along & decide my post should be deleted. I'm also not sure whether Mac OS disks are copy protected. If not then you have a few options. You can use Roxio Toast which is a cd/dvd burner program. Put the disk in, open Toast, select the Copy tab. Then hold down the apple & D keys or go to file menu & choose Save as Disk image. After it's finished, click the Advanced menu via the little blue & white button on the Toast window, & tick Image File. Then drag & drop the disk image you just saved which will be called Mac """.Toast into the main Toast window. Then put a blank disk into the drive .. be that cd or dvd whichever is appropriate & press the Big Red button bottom right of the Toast window.

Another way is to use Disk Copy. Open Disk Copy. Go to menu bar & select Image>Convert Image... (or just hold down apple & K keys) & choose a location to save the image. After saving, you put a blank disk into the drive & go to Disk Copy's menu again>Image>Burn (or hold down apple & B keys.) Simple as that.

But with both Toast & Disk Copy you should set burn speed to minimum to guarantee no problems burning. For Disk Copy go to its preferences>Burning & select 1x. For Toast you'll have the option when you press the red burn button.

There's a slightly similar example HERE (click on link) re: choosing Image File to burn within Toast. My instruction for Toast were for version 6 not 5. For Toast 5 instructions send me a pm.

We are entitled to make legal back-up copies which I prefer to do to keep at a separate location. There is a lot of money tired up in s/w these days and to lose it in a fire or theft would be quite devastating. I'm not selling or illegally distributing my copy. I DID BUY the family pack and am using it within family. Thanks for your help. I'll have to give it a try later tonight after a meeting.

I forgot to mention if using Disk Copy you need to drag & drop the OS disk into the Disk Copy window before you have it create a disk image.

I don't think a toast-made DVD will be bootable. . . so I'm trying with Disk Utility just now.

see http://discussions.info.apple.com/we....3@.68ae6139/3

not sure why the link doesn't work at times, but here's the path

go to http://discussions.info.apple.com/
> Mac OS X > Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger > Installation & Setup > search for "Back Up CD"

btw--I just booted the iMac G4 with a copy I made of the Tiger DVD using Panther's Disk Utility with the G4's Superdrive.

I used Disk Utility's image option to make an image of the volume as a DVD master, then used the master image to burn a copy onto a blank DVD.

Not taking anything away from your advice .. but I have more than one G4 here. I made a copy of OS panther without issues using Toast's Copy format ... which copies as is. No problems booting with the disk. The next best thing i know of other than disk copy is ASTARTE CD-Copy which makes an identical copy of "any" disk format. Apple bought over most of Astarte's (a German company) utilitilies including for video & music, most noticably was DVD Studio Pro 1 which was next to "identical" to AStarte's equivalent that it was based on. Apple's Disk Copy is more advanced yet limited than CD-Copy if you can guess what I mean.

My comments are probably irrelevant anyway. For a start, AStarte was OS 9, etc.