how do I take a mounted image of leopard and make it into a dmg?

[mmaaxx]

My father (who lives in the same house) bought leopard. According to him I am allowed to make a copy of it along with the other members of my household.

Here is my question: He took the cd and mounted it on a partition of an external hard drive. Now I have the hard drive sitting here. After I installed it I realized I will not have any way to restore my computer if it crashes without a cd or copy of it. How can I take the mounted copy of the cd from my external and make a dmg of it again.?

I tried using disk utility, but leopard was restored to a 16gb partition so when I clicked to make a new image in disk utility it came out as a 16gb file not a 7ish gig file like it should be to fit ona dl dvd.

Any help is appreciated

[webgoat]

if he purchased a family pack of leopard than this is the case

http://www.macmaps.com/bootcd.html

[EricNau]

If your computer crashes you won't have access to the DVD? :confused:

[mmaaxx]

yeah he got the family pack it allows for up to 4 people in the household to install AND COPY it. says so right in the fine print---nothing illegal.

[mmaaxx]

can't hurt to have a backup and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it either. Thanks

[i4k20c]

heh, now you got me thinking.. me and my brother were going to buy leopard family pack over winter break.. and just share it but he goes to school and I in the midwest.. i was going to do the same thing as you and keep a image copy of it on my ext. hdd, but you have created a interesting dilemma. :p

I wish the family pack just came with 5 dvd's or whatever the number is, I would gladly pay a extra $10 for that. :o

[Me1000]

Try CarbonCopyCloner

it is pretty straight forward, but if Disk Util gives you a 16GB image, I would almost bet CCC will to,

Do a Block-level copy if you can though,
:)

[Eidorian]

I always just used Disk Utility and made a CD master disk image of my scratched of Tiger Disc. :confused:

[mmaaxx]

My father is on vacation for two days and I do NOT go through his personal things. So right now all I have is this on an external harddrive. He restored it to a 16gb partition too so it makes things more complicated.