I just wanted to give a bit of a Heads-Up to Teh Internets Users who might be relying on the Restore tab of the DVD that came with their Intel Mac.
Unfortunately, the copy of Disk Utility that’s on those DVDs (I’ve checked the one for the MacBook Pro and the iMac, but I don’t have an Intel Mac mini to test with) has a non-functioning Restore tab: the tab relies on drag-and-drop to set the destination volume (if you’re not using an image, the source as well), and—due to what looks to be a bug in this specific version of the utility—drag and drop does not work in the volume sidebar.
This means it’s not possible to restore a volume when booted from this DVD (regardless of how that volume was created). If you’re relying on the DVD’s restore functionality, I suggest installing a minimal system to a small partition on an external drive instead, as the Disk Utility that’s part of Tiger itself works just fine.
15 Apr 2006 at 02:01 pm | #
Thanks for the confirmation. I faced that problem a few weeks ago, thought I was turning mad trying to drag that volume from the sidebar, and finally did another way. It’s reassuring to read that, thanks.
20 Apr 2006 at 06:29 pm | #
Hi Dave --
Actually, it is possible to do restores from the DVD—just not by using Disk Utility. The command-line version of Apple Software Restore is available in the Terminal and works as advertised with images (and you can even do multicast restores! very exciting).
‘man asr’ in the terminal for syntax tips.
Thanks for a great utility!
20 Apr 2006 at 07:21 pm | #
Ah, yes—later Tiger DVDs do allow you to run Terminal from the DVD—although it’s considerably more involved than most Mac users might want. But, a good tip nevertheless—thanks, Mike.
23 Apr 2006 at 11:44 am | #
Man, I was about to go insane trying to figure this one out. Thanks for the confirmation. I guess you just have to do it through terminal.
nolan
25 Apr 2006 at 02:53 pm | #
Why on earth doesn’t Apple fix this? Maddening. I went through about 4 mice before I gave up and googled this. Bizarre.
12 Aug 2006 at 03:07 pm | #
Attempts to restore disk0 as a result of above failed. I ended doing the following as a work around:
1. Reinstall OSX on my disk0
2. Use SuperDuper to copy disk0 to an external FW drive.
3. Boot the system from the FW drive.
4. Used “hdiutil attach -noverify -reload disk0.dmg” from a terminal window
5. Used SuperDuper to copy the now mounted disk image