Increasing the size of the RAM Disk will not improve CD boot time. I used a 700 MB CD-R but used the default RAM Disk size. Otherwise, you can feel free to leave these fieldsĪlone. RAM Disk than the default size, enter the size you want in the 'RAMĭisk Size' field.

If you will be burning to a CD of a different size than 650 MB,Įnter the size of the CD in the 'Disk Size' field.

Making a bootable CD with BootCD is relatively simple: TheĬurrent version works much better than previous versions and includesĪnd other utilities, although Norton does not yet work from the CD. Well, now you can, thanks to a cool little donationware utilityīootCD is a Cocoa app that creates a disk image that can be used toīurn a Mac OS X boot CD with a working Finder and Dock on it.īootCD is unfinished and still has some flaws, but it works.

OS X install CDs are bootable, of course, and they contain Appleĭisk Utility, but it would be nice to have a CD equivalent of the oldĭisk Tools floppy, which had a bootable system and Disk First Aid (aĭiagnostic and repair utility) and the HD/SCSI Setup or Drive Setup Installations are a complex procedure, and you can no longer simplyĭrag the System around the way you could with the Classic Mac OS. However, things got more complicated in the OS X era.

That shipped with Macs are also bootable, and Low End Mac has explainedīootable Emergency CD with the Classic Mac OS. System Folder from your hard drive onto a CD. Boot floppies have savedīootable CDs replaced Disk Tools floppies. Image to make one from Apple's support site. The last Disk Toolsįloppies had Mac OS 8.1 on them, and you can still download the disk This came to an end when even a stripped-down skeleton of the Mac OSīecame too large to fit on a 1.4 MB floppy. On floppy-drive equipped Macs, putting aīootable floppy in the floppy drive took precedence as the default boot The Disk Tools floppy was a holdover from the days when MacsĬould boot from floppy disks. One thing you always wanted to have on hand in the old days was aĭisk Tools floppy for booting your Mac when trouble reared its ugly It should be considered obsolete, since it is not Since this article was first published, BootCD hasīeen discontinued.

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