Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) Date: 29 Sep 2015 02:42:31 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <5607248c$0$16450$b1db1813$e2fc9064@news.astraweb.com> <56081212$0$27801$b1db1813$145976f0@news.astraweb.com> <56082e21$0$2966$c3e8da3$f6268168@news.astraweb.com> <56084a51$0$65425$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com> <56086d97$0$27689$c3e8da3$fdf4f6af@news.astraweb.com> <5608c1e2$0$34656$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com> <5608df10$0$60248$c3e8da3$b1356c67@news.astraweb.com> <5609666d$0$6335$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com> <56096d99$0$9140$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com> <5609901b$0$65283$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com> <5609f7d8$0$1534$c3e8da3$f017e9df@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net lTtNYSXtjT4cQiAksEOOAAa+NLmBBz8AnRLTIeFuBGF0fn1q3/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:NciFnaNlfa/vPrbHFOSD/m7sNqI= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:81028 On 2015-09-29, JF Mezei wrote: > On 15-09-28 15:30, Jolly Roger wrote: > >> And by the way, a simple web search for "create Yosemite install USB >> stick" would have told you exactly that. > > Am not seeking to create an install USB stick. Am seeking to have a > minimal bootable environment to do save disk copy while thye real system > disk is not active. > > If you had read the OP you would have known that. We actually talked about doing both in the thread. It was during a discussion about creating *install* USB sticks that *I* mentioned the InstallESD.dmg disk image, which is used for precisely that. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR