spinbob Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Hi Everyone, First of all....this board is AWESOME! If it wasn't for all the deicated people here I would have never been able to get my iDeneb install working on my Dell E521. I have successfully installed iDeneb 10.5.5 and have all my apps working properly. This took quit a while to accomplish so I would like to create a backup image of the drive for easy recovery incase something blows up. A set of bootable recovery DVDs would be cool....or even an image on a usb drive that can be accessed by a boot cd or something. I am a Microsoft Systems Engineer that is very rapidly converting to MAC....COMPLETELY MAC! The problem is that all of my experience lies in the Windows world. I have read that some applications can break installations so I need some guidance on how to get a good drive image (for recovery) created and the method to recover from that image. Thanks for your time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137057-how-can-i-create-a-recovery-dvd-of-ideneb-1055-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Your best bet is a spare USB HDD! Get a good size, make it bootable with Chameleon, and use Carbon Copy Cloner to duplicate it! then put it in the cupboard, that way you have a bootable working image of your current system.... If you get it big enough, you can also store your other software on it! You can also make a image of the disk using Carbon Copy Cloner then use the Install DVD and restore it via Disk Utilities The first option however allow you to constantly update it, if you have a system running well for a day or two, then re-clone it! I bought a 80GB genuine Apple drive from ebay for $18.00 and a USB cage for $7.00, a good backup system IMHO!? SticMAN Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137057-how-can-i-create-a-recovery-dvd-of-ideneb-1055-install/#findComment-970068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinbob Posted November 18, 2008 Author Share Posted November 18, 2008 Thanks for the quick reply SticMAN! I was looking at CCC3 but was not sure how to proceed. So basically I need to make the backup drive bootable, with Chameleon, then install CCC3 and make a clone of my Leopard drive. Is this correct? Please excuse my Nubeness....but how do I make a bootable USB drive with Chameleon? Is this native to my Mac install or do I need to download it? Thanks for taking the time to help I meant SticMac....not SticMan....sorry about that Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137057-how-can-i-create-a-recovery-dvd-of-ideneb-1055-install/#findComment-970090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Here a copy it's freely available on the forum, i just removed the annoying song they added in the install! Run it, it will then ask which drive to install to choose the USB HDD, that you have Partitioned GUID or MBR and Formatted HFS+, then use CCC to do the rest. DON'T Check the box to format in CCC as it will remove the Chameleon and you have to do it again! This doesn't really matter as you can Clone then Chameleon or Chameleon then Clone, the order is not important! SticMAN It used to be SticMAN until last Monday, I sold my Last PC I now only own Macs, therefore the subtle name change! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137057-how-can-i-create-a-recovery-dvd-of-ideneb-1055-install/#findComment-970098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinbob Posted November 18, 2008 Author Share Posted November 18, 2008 Cool! I'll try it when I get home from work and let you know how it went. Thanks for all of your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137057-how-can-i-create-a-recovery-dvd-of-ideneb-1055-install/#findComment-970108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
onii Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I just tried this method and am having difficulty. I cloned using ccc, then ran chameleon. it just sits at the blinking cursor tho when I try to boot. =/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137057-how-can-i-create-a-recovery-dvd-of-ideneb-1055-install/#findComment-987112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
onii Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 blah..giving up and doing fresh install. i did something with osx86 tools and now the drive wont boot even with ideneb dvd in. ARGH Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137057-how-can-i-create-a-recovery-dvd-of-ideneb-1055-install/#findComment-987154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Time machine backup is another solution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137057-how-can-i-create-a-recovery-dvd-of-ideneb-1055-install/#findComment-987245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiD Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 What options did you use to install iDeneb 10.5.5? I keep trying and the install works, then on reboot I get the boot options menu, it starts to boot, then my system reboots and the cycle starts again. :-( Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137057-how-can-i-create-a-recovery-dvd-of-ideneb-1055-install/#findComment-990972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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