You are going to want a small partition (10GB, let's say) that will contain nothing but the installer clone. Think carefully before pressing any crucial buttons! If you select the wrong drive and repartition it, or if you select the wrong partition and restore to it, you can lose important data.Īttach (to your PPC Mac), mount, and prepare your external FireWire drive. Warning: This tutorial involves using Disk Utility.
Also, it does not apply to the software restore disks that came with your computer, nor does it apply to any system version that comes on multiple disks (meaning Panther or earlier, which came on 3 CDs). That means it is useful only for a PowerPC Mac, because there is no single stand-alone Tiger installer DVD for an Intel machine. Note: The technique described here applies only to the full Tiger installer DVD. The resulting clone will exactly reproduce the installer DVD, so you won't need the DVD as an installer.
What this tutorial suggests is that you clone the installer DVD to a partition of an external FireWire drive. But what if your optical drive is on the blink, and won't read the DVD? What if the DVD gets lost, or scratched? Also, starting up from the installer DVD takes a long time, which is stressful and frustrating when your computer is hosed and you want to get it up and running again. However, the technique we advised in that tutorial does have one step that can be slightly troublesome: "Locate and start up from your system installer disk." The assumption here is that you've got something like a Tiger installer DVD. We have, indeed, explained in a recent tutorial that this is not difficult or time-consuming, and that it can be an easy and reliable way to restore the system to a known, clean state without losing any data. It sometimes happens that, in an extreme situation, it is necessary to reinstall the system.
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