![]() ![]() ![]() Make sure this CD is bootable on the machine(s) you intend to use it with - I learned that one he 'hard' way. This is where DasBoot will get the info in order to create the minimal OS that you'll be booting into. Most commercial disk utilities, such as, SubRosaSoft's own and, or come on a bootable CD. Before you start, make sure you have the following things. That's just darn cool! The Quick-and-Dirty How to. Got an older FireWire iPod? Now, provided you've purchased and are installing the right software, you can make it a utility that not only will boot a PPC or an Intel Mac, but can also play music when not being used as a boot device. If you have a sizable USB Flash drive, you can put together a repair disk for Intel-based Macs that is both immensely portable and lightning-fast. Enter DasBoot DasBoot is a utility by SubRosaSoft that allows you to create a repair utility out of any bootable device. The problem still remains, though, that you have to wait for the darned thing to boot - and may be just an illusion, but the 'custom' CDs seem to take even longer to boot, for some reason. Sure, there are utilities that will allow you to create a custom CD, enabling you to put all your favorite utilities on one disc. And what happens when the first utility you tried doesn't fix the problem? Then you have to boot from another CD, and the waiting begins again. Let's face it, booting to OSX from CD is an extremely slow process. Something funky is going on with your Mac, so you pop in the bootable CD of your favorite diagnostic/repair software and start up holding 'C'. ![]() Create an 'Emergency Disk' with DasBoot by You know it's happened to you. ![]()
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