I have an OS X Leopard installer on a USB flash drive and I want to copy it to DVD to get faster install speed. How can I clone the installer on the USB and burn that to a DVD?
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Have you tried with Disk Utility?
“Create a disk image from a folder or connected device” https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/create-a-disk-image-dskutl11888/mac
“Create a disk image from a folder or connected device” https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/create-a-disk-image-dskutl11888/mac
Well I downloaded Leopard Install DMG from Mac Repository and used the Restore function in disk utility to flash it from disk image to USB but it took 5 hours to install off of USB and I hated that! It also took 1h to download Leopard DMG so not doing that again. Are you saying that I can recreate the DMG by compressing USB contents/making a disk image of the USB? And then I can burn it? Thanks 
I don't have the DMG. I'll search the Downloads folder on all my macs but pretty sure I deleted it.
It might work, in Disk Utility unmount the volume Mac OS Install, click on the USB drive, then File – New image – image from USB device. For Image Format choose DVD/CD master.
Never mind. I am downloading the ISO/DMG again. It says 32 minutes so I don't mind waiting. The question is, does anyone know what I should use to burn the disk image to a dvd? I have Roxio Toast 7 but not sure if it works for this kind of job.
That's what I thought. So should I do Restore function with the disk image and insert my blank DVD? I'm running:
OS X 10.5 Leopard
Power Mac G5 2GHz
2GB RAM
on my computer that has a burning drive.
Just click on the image in the Source pane (on the left) and then on “Burn Image” in the toolbar. Your G5 needs a drive explicitly capable of writing dual-layer DVDs.
In case Disk Utility doesn’t do the job, oldies but goldies
SimplyBurns https://simplyburns.sourceforge.io/index.php
Burn https://burn-osx.sourceforge.io/Pages/English/home.html
SimplyBurns https://simplyburns.sourceforge.io/index.php
Burn https://burn-osx.sourceforge.io/Pages/English/home.html
@bogdanw Thanks for the links.
@Amethyst1 I opened System Profiler and clicked on Burning, it said that it could do Dual layer DVDs.
@Amethyst1 I opened System Profiler and clicked on Burning, it said that it could do Dual layer DVDs.