Hi Will If you really want to make backups of your install discs I would not keep them on the same drive as your regular system, if the drive fails it will most likely not be able to boot from the partition you saved the backups to anyway.
Personally I would just keep the discs in a safe place as you will still have to use them to reinstall. That said you can backup the install discs to a DMG. You can use disc utility to do it. 1. insert the disc 2. choose the disc name (not the drive name) on the source list 3. choose new image 4. recommended options are Compressed and no encryption 5. choose where to save the image and give it a name 6. hit save. this will take a while especially with the internal MBP drives it could be slightly over 1 hour depending on your drive. if you want to use this image to do an install you will need to create a partition of about 6.5 GB on your hd or thumbdrive of choice. mount the image you made before use Carbon Copy Cloner and do a complete backup of the image to the partition/thumbdrive then you can boot from the partition or thumbdrive and install should progress a fair bit faster than off the optical drive. you may need a sighted person to help when holding down the option key at boot to select the correct drive to startup from. HTH Kieren On Aug 18, 5:40 pm, william lomas <lomaswill...@googlemail.com> wrote: > hi all is it possible for us as blind olks to make a partition ont he > > drive ad restore a DMG of our leopard discs onto it for safe keeping > if so how? > thanks will --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
