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boot disk IMAGE OSX 10.3 - please help from Italy

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pino

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Hi I'm from Italy, first of all sorry for my bad English.
Question is: Can a I restart my G5 running OSX 10.3 from a previously created using disk utility (after booting from CD), boot disk image????????
Suppose that image is stored on an external FIRE WIRE Hard drive. MAC boot disk is corrupted and I replace it with an identical brand new disk. I start from CD, and then i run disk utility, and then restore image from the fire wire HD.
Can the saved image disk replace and fit as the same prevoisuly installation.
Can I boot from the restore disk image????

Thank You all in advance

Marco
 
Re: boot disk IMAGE OSX 10.3 - please help from Italy

Originally posted by pino
Hi I'm from Italy, first of all sorry for my bad English.
Question is: Can a I restart my G5 running OSX 10.3 from a previously created using disk utility (after booting from CD), boot disk image????????
Suppose that image is stored on an external FIRE WIRE Hard drive. MAC boot disk is corrupted and I replace it with an identical brand new disk. I start from CD, and then i run disk utility, and then restore image from the fire wire HD.
Can the saved image disk replace and fit as the same prevoisuly installation.
Can I boot from the restore disk image????

Thank You all in advance

Marco
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I know that there's no easy way to boot directly from a disk image; however, if you copy the image's contents to the hard drive first (assuming the disk has just been formatted and has nothing on it), it should work. I never thought of just imaging my entire hard disk and copying the image to a FireWire drive as a backup method. Maybe I'll try doing this in the future.
 
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