If you have an Intel-based Macintosh computer, a copy of the excellent SuperDuper ($27.95) from Shirtpocket and a 5 GB or greater USB flash drive, you can easily create a faster bootable copy of any Mac OS X installer disc.
It’s easy:
- Format the flash drive with Disk Utility making sure to select GUID from the advanced options. If your Flash drive is large enough, partitions are OK.
- Insert your bootable DVD or CD disc.
- Run SuperDuper and select your bootable volume as source with the Flash drive as destination and start the copy process
Profit!
That’s it. SuperDuper does exact sector copies, so everything should work out. I’ve done this with my Snow Leopard DVD-ROM as well as with a Mac Mini Server Snow Leopard Server DVD-ROM (the Mini Server has no DVD-ROM drive).
Not tested with DiskWarrior, but I’m keen to try that next given the slow boot time that DW discs have.