Bootable disc image files may contain all the data necessary to create a disc from which computers can boot, but if you want them to work, you can't just burn them to a disc the way you would regular ...

The most common method is to boot from a Mac OS X Install disc, run the Installer utility and install a new copy of Mac OS X. The other common alternative is to create a bootable (mirrored or cloned) ...

When your small business creates a bootable disk for its Mac computers from ISO disk images, there's a difference between an ISO file and the disk image it contains. If you burn the file to a blank ...

Unlike previous versions of Mac OS X, Lion isn't delivered on physical media. Instead, you buy and download it from Snow Leopard's Mac App Store. But what if you want to do a clean install, boot from ...

Click to viewIf and when that terrible day your Mac dies finally catches up to you, you can be back up and running with all your applications, settings and data in under 5 seconds with a bootable ...

I'm taking a computer science class on operating systems and we're given a 1.4MB disk image for a floppy disk. The disk image is for a very small version of linux that he wrote. In class the professor ...

How do I create a snow leopard usb boot or dvd disk while running Sonoma on a Mac Studio Pro? I want to install Snow Leopard on an old Macpro 5,1 but I don’t have a boot disk or sub stick. I got Snow ...

In last month's column, I described the hurdles that Mac OS X puts in your way when you try to create a bootable disc, especially a custom bootable CD, DVD or flash drive. I offered various solutions ...