Using the ancient art of inserting a CD/DVD installer, booting, installing,
This technqiue is hundreds of time faster, better, more up-to-date than run NetRestore, clone from your ASR disc image Boot off a OS X mac (by firewire drive, target disk mode etc) Then all you need to do in the future to restore is as follows: Carbon Copy Cloner your beautiful OS X to an ASR compatible Disc image Boot, create user, test, update (Apple CDs are out of date anyway)ģ. Onto a clean firewire drive partition (need a firewire bootable mac)Ģ. Install OS X (with full options, BSD, your chosen Languages etc)
Mac OS X ASR disc image using a firewire drive, carbon copyġ. Rather than making CD copies, why not create a clean virgin (and updated) When I tried it that way I invariably received an error message that the media was not writable. I would expect this method to also create bootable DVDs but have not yet tried it.īTW, you might intuitively think that opening Disk Utility and executing steps 4 - 6 and inserting a CD would provide the same results but this seems to not be the case.
Now that Disk Copy is merged into Disk Utility, this seems to work reliably if you have an existing ISO image: I made a couple of coasters before trying this particular approach. This is simple - but I haven't seen it described quite this way before.