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10.5 Family Pack Install Disc Backup?

flyinmac said:
If your friend leaves the residence / home that you share, then one of you will lose your right to the program / shared license.

The license is for up to 5 people who share the same home / physical space as their primary residence (on personal / home computers - not remote office computers).

If your friend leaves, and you keep the original disks, then your friend loses all legal right to use the program.

If your friend takes the original, then you lose all rights to use the program.

Basically, up to five computers / users in the same residence. No sharing with friends or family who live somewhere else.

That said, I have successfully created a full working backup copy of the entire Leopard DVD using Windows. Windows was able to see the Mac and the Windows sections of the DVD and created a single large image that contained both.

These types of disks are "Hybrid" disks. They are common and have been around for as long as we've had CD's.

Many companies publish Mac and Windows versions of their programs on the same disk. The PC reads the PC section, the Mac reads the Mac section. Both machines ignore / don't see the section intended for the other machine type.
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How did you create a backup of the DVD? Any chance of a break down on the steps?
 
^squirrel^ said:
How did you create a backup of the DVD? Any chance of a break down on the steps?
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I just used a free program that came up in a google search to make ISO images of DVD's in Windows Vista.

I don't recall the program. It was some small download, and was free.

After making the ISO image, I just booted back into OS X and burned the ISO to a Dual-Layer DVD-R using Disk Utility in OS X.

Edit: Just browsed my Windows drive, and found downloads to ISOBuster and Burncdcc

So, it's one of those.
 
flyinmac said:
I just used a free program that came up in a google search to make ISO images of DVD's in Windows Vista.

I don't recall the program. It was some small download, and was free.

After making the ISO image, I just booted back into OS X and burned the ISO to a Dual-Layer DVD-R using Disk Utility in OS X.

Edit: Just browsed my Windows drive, and found downloads to ISOBuster and Burncdcc

So, it's one of those.
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Oh yeah i know ISObuster, will try it out tomorrow.

Thanks
 
iJawn108 said:
make an iso :rolleyes:
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Yes, would seem obvious.

But, since the program shows them as separate pieces, you want to be sure you are at the top of the branch when you make your selection.

By default, the main root / branch was not selected on mine. It defaulted to the Windows section of the disk for the place to start.
 
^squirrel^ said:
In ISObuster, how to i convert to an ISO. When i extracted it make a .tao file.

Thanks again.

Darren
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I think it was in the screen where you chose the file name. Should be a drop down box there to choose either TAO or ISO. If not, check in the menus for a preference screen.

I remember having to set it to ISO somewhere.

I'm not in Windows right now though. Hopefully you'll see it if you go back in there.
 
You guys are over complicating things I have a perfect working copy of my Family pack DVD, and all I needed was Disk Utility.

1. Insert Leopard Disc (wait for it to mount)
2. Open Disc Utility, and select "Mac OS X Install DVD", and click New Image on top.
3. I just kept whatever settings it had including "compressed" and clicked Save
4. Once that finishes insert a blank DVD, click "Burn" in Disc Utility, and navigate to the .dmg that you just made, and click OK

Done!

works in Bootcamp, and OS X

No need to get Toast or .ISOBuster or anything else involved.
 
todd2000 said:
You guys are over complicating things I have a perfect working copy of my Family pack DVD, and all I needed was Disk Utility.

1. Insert Leopard Disc (wait for it to mount)
2. Open Disc Utility, and select "Mac OS X Install DVD", and click New Image on top.
3. I just kept whatever settings it had including "compressed" and clicked Save
4. Once that finishes insert a blank DVD, click "Burn" in Disc Utility, and navigate to the .dmg that you just made, and click OK

Done!

works in Bootcamp, and OS X

No need to get Toast or .ISOBuster or anything else involved.
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Perhaps you should try to install the Boot Camp drivers from the backup.

I did use Disk Utility first (As I usually do with all my disks), and found that although it would see a "ghost" image of the Boot Camp drivers, it wouldn't actually install from the disk.

The one created using ISO Buster worked fine as an installer for the drivers though.
 
seattlemaclover said:
What software did you use to copy the disk?
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As mentioned in my previous post, I did use ISO Buster in Windows to make the fully working copy.

Disk Utility in OS X did make a copy for me, but the installer for the Boot Camp drivers would just hang and fail to complete when run from the backup made by Disk Utility.
 
flyinmac said:
Perhaps you should try to install the Boot Camp drivers from the backup.

I did use Disk Utility first (As I usually do with all my disks), and found that although it would see a "ghost" image of the Boot Camp drivers, it wouldn't actually install from the disk.

The one created using ISO Buster worked fine as an installer for the drivers though.
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Already have installed the drivers, thats why I said it works with Boot Camp. I just restarted, and started the install process again to confirm and it works perfectly.
 
todd2000 said:
Already have installed the drivers, thats why I said it works with Boot Camp. I just restarted, and started the install process again to confirm and it works perfectly.
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Interesting...

I did my first backup using Disk Utility, and cloned the entire DVD just like I always have with previous OS X install disks. But, I ended up with a smaller image than the actual disk because Disk Utility only saw the OS X portion of the install disk.

When used under Windows, I could see what appeared to be shortcuts to files which were not actually there. I could click on them, and it would try to do something, but then hang-up / freeze. The icons all had the little arrows next to them that indicate that they are aliases or shortcuts.

So, it didn't work for me.

The OS X side worked perfectly fine though allowing installation of OS X from the copy.

The copy I made with ISO buster was able to be used to install OS X and also install Boot Camp.

Perhaps there is a situation where Disk Utility may clone the entire DVD sometimes, but not others in the case of a hybrid disk.

There are others who have reported it not working as well. So, it could be something that may work, but not always.
 
todd2000 said:
You guys are over complicating things I have a perfect working copy of my Family pack DVD, and all I needed was Disk Utility.

1. Insert Leopard Disc (wait for it to mount)
2. Open Disc Utility, and select "Mac OS X Install DVD", and click New Image on top.
3. I just kept whatever settings it had including "compressed" and clicked Save
4. Once that finishes insert a blank DVD, click "Burn" in Disc Utility, and navigate to the .dmg that you just made, and click OK

Done!

works in Bootcamp, and OS X

No need to get Toast or .ISOBuster or anything else involved.
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just a regular dvd-r work ok or did you need a dual layer?
 
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