ciper Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I want to save my current stable configuration to a compressed disk image. I was hoping to use the Disk Utlity to directly write the image to a DVD but the drive is not listed in the destinations. This cloned copy would let me install hacks and try kernel upgrades without worrying about screwing my install. Any advice? I want to find the simplest method to clone my partition contents to a dvd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46938-i-would-like-to-image-my-hard-drive-directly-to-dvd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Tried Disk Utility's New Image button? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46938-i-would-like-to-image-my-hard-drive-directly-to-dvd/#findComment-336068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 Tried Disk Utility's New Image button? I tried that first but the blank dvd was not listed as a destination. I solved that problem - originally when the "autoplay" came up I told it to ignore, telling it to launch finder instead "mounted" the blank dvd on the desktop and I was able to select it from within the disk utility . Problem now is that after a short amount of time after pressing the "save" button to create a new image I get a "resource busy" error. Any idea? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46938-i-would-like-to-image-my-hard-drive-directly-to-dvd/#findComment-336096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 You could try it from the installation DVD perhaps. By this, I mean boot off your OSX86 dvd, and use Disk Utility there to save your partition image to another partition, then burn it when you're back in osx86/windows. That might work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46938-i-would-like-to-image-my-hard-drive-directly-to-dvd/#findComment-337009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted April 4, 2007 Author Share Posted April 4, 2007 I was hoping to skip the step of creating a seperate partition just for temporary storage. I tried to boot off the install dvd and burn the image directly to a blank dvd but that doesnt work either. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46938-i-would-like-to-image-my-hard-drive-directly-to-dvd/#findComment-339418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted April 4, 2007 Author Share Posted April 4, 2007 I did as you suggested and created a 4gb fat32 partition to hold the image temporarily. I booted back into OSX and verified the parition was accessable/writable with no issue. I then booted from my installation dvd and the partition was not mounted in the Disk Utility. I launched Disk Utility from the terminal so I could watch the output and when clicking mount for the fat32, it says the operation was successful but the partition never mounts. I then tried to mount the image manually using mount directly from the terminal and recieved the "bad superblock" error. I thought that since the HFS file system of my OSX drive was mounting fine that I would reformat the fat partition to HFS. Disk utility completed the operation and in the process {censored}ed my partition table leaving no active partition and destroying my OSX partition. Luckily before I created the 4gb partition (using a dos ultimate boot disk on a usb drive) I made a backup of the partition table and was able to salvage my system. So now Im stuck. My install DVD cannot mount fat images and I cant format an HFS partition without corrupting my partition table. Any advice? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46938-i-would-like-to-image-my-hard-drive-directly-to-dvd/#findComment-339942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
offall Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 I think is the fat32 problem, fat 32 is not allow file larger than 2G your image is definately larger than that may be you can format the partion with HFS then try again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46938-i-would-like-to-image-my-hard-drive-directly-to-dvd/#findComment-340370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted April 5, 2007 Author Share Posted April 5, 2007 I think you can have 4095gb files with fat32. Either way I have not even been able to mount the fat32 partition to even try the image. I cannot format HFS because disk utility trashes my partition table. Do you know another way to format HFS+? Gparted can't format new HFS+ partitions Clonetool is hard coded to look for its support binaries on /applications/clonetool instead of the folder it is ran from so I cannot use it from the install DVD It seems I am asking a simple question but no solution exists - I want to create a DMG of my OSX partition and then write it to a dvd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46938-i-would-like-to-image-my-hard-drive-directly-to-dvd/#findComment-340774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
offall Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 I am pretty sure the maxim file size on fat32 is 2G, 4096 is the size of fast partition. to back up your system directly to DVD is not that easy but once you have a swap partition, you can back it up with carbon copy cloner then use dmgsissor to cut into 4G segment, then burn it on DVD, I don't see any difficulty of doing that. However, there is a way to directly backup to DVD though, only takes a little bit more dvds to do so. the way is to use Hiren bootCD (do a google search and download) boot into CD, go to norton ghost 11 it can recognize the apple partition and back it up to DVD or at least NTFS partition. only problem is it can not recognize how much portion of the apple partition is used so it will back up the whole partition instead. say you have a 20G osx partition with actually 10G data on it, norton ghost will make a image of 20G of size instead of 10G Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46938-i-would-like-to-image-my-hard-drive-directly-to-dvd/#findComment-349117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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