BootCD is a tool for making CDs with Apple's operating system Mac OS X. Such CDs are called Live CDs. The classic Mac OS was easily bootable from read-only media. Mac OS X is different. It is based on BSD UNIX and normally wants to have write access to certain locations. Also, it's quite large in size, which makes it more difficult to slim down to the size of a CD. Charles Srstka has developed a program named BootCD to aid in creating bootable CDs for Mac OS X. It collects the needed parts of the OS to a burnable disk image file. As part of the creation process, the user may add whatever third-party applications he/she might want to run from the boot CD, such as a disk utility like DiskWarrior. CD may stand for: Canadian Forces Decoration cash dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrums demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) certificate of deposit České dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datenforung (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s Panhard race car designed... Apple Computer, Inc. ... Mac OS X is the latest version of the Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers. ... A LiveCD is an operating system (usually containing other software as well) stored on a bootable CD-ROM that can be executed from it, without installation on a hard drive. ... Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is Apple Computer’s name for the operating systems for Macintosh computers. ... Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... UNIX® (or Unix) is a portable, multi-task and multi-user computer operating system originally developed by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... A disk image is a computer file containing the complete contents and structure of a data storage device. ...

Windows is up today not bootable from CD because it needs a writable registry file. Bart PE omits this difficulty partly. Windows may refer to: the architectural feature (for seeing out of buildings); see window a concept in computer graphical user interfaces; see window (computing) the computer operating system, Microsoft Windows the 1981 movie, Windows This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share...

Weblinks

• BootCD from Charlessoft (http://www.charlessoft.com/)
• Manually made Mac OS X Bootable CD (http://www.bombich.com/mactips/bootx.html)