Can you make a customizable bootable Mac OS X CD, especially one that can go to the Finder/Desktop (useful for emergency startup CDs)? The answer appears to be largely no - at least for now - although ...

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 ...

Over the past few days we've been covering issues with starting Mac OS X when an NVidia NVidia GeForce 6800 card is installed. The issue affects not only standard installations of both Mac OS X Client ...

I think the reason we haven't heard many complaints about the doing away of physical media is exactly this. As long as power users can make their own offline media, there's nothing to complain about.

I finally got a G4 at work and installed OS X and OS 9.1 on separate partitions. When you boot into 9 you're fine, when you boot into X you're okay too. When I try to boot back into 9 after being in X ...

New Zealand-based developer SubRosaSoft Ltd. announced the availability of VolumeWorks 1.1 on Tuesday. The new version of the partition management tool features a bootable Mac OS X CD option that ...

On Monday Apple finally unveiled to the world the next iteration of OS X, Mavericks. A developer preview of the new operating system is available now as a Mac App Store download for registered ...

A bootable Mac OS X thumb drive comes in handy when you need to troubleshoot OS issues for yourself, your family, or your friends. It’s also extremely useful for keeping your basic setup consistent ...

Mavericks (OS X 10.9) doesn’t ship on a disc. Instead, it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store, and that installer doesn’t ...