Burning bootable Panther backups
When I first bought Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), I burned so many coasters trying to make a backup set that it wasn't funny. I was frustrated for all the methods I tried and all the time wasted trying, and still couldn't make a bootable set of discs.
I have long given up trying since. Then today, I went into an English magazine shop to browse at magazines. Yes, I know I've made a New Year resolution about staying away and stop buying them at inflated prices, but I was only browsing. Moments later, I left the shop, oh, with a copy of Macworld in hand.
Inside the March issue are the instructions to create bootable copies of Panther using only Disk Utility and nothing else.
Naturally, the first thing I came home to do was followed the steps on the printed page to make my own Panther CDs. Holy-cow, it worked. I just rebooted from my freshly dubbed CD, and it looked just like the original. I even ran Disk Utility from it just to make sure.
So I paid US$10 (HK$75) for my copy of Macworld, but it was worth every overpriced dollar. You, on the other hand, can save the money and read the instructions online.