Can't select sparseimage as source!

[mirkwood]

Something is really wacky here. This worked earlier today, but now I can't do this:

I created a sparseimage of my system drive, the sparseimage is on a firewire drive. I want to now copy that sparseimage to another firewire drive so that it overwrites the target drive, ie make a bootable firewire drive.

However I cannot select the sparseimage that I created as the source disk image! It is greyed out in the file browser that pops up. If I rename the sparseimage to use a .dmg extension, it will let me select it, but then SuperDuper fails to mount the image with the error:
Error | Couldn't mount source image

I can, however, mount the image just fine (as .sparseimage or .dmg) in OSX.

What is going on? Did my sparseimage get wacked? This worked fine earlier today when I selected a previous sparseimage, made from the same system drive, but I deleted it (long story) and made another one.

[dnanian]

Actually, even though it's grey, you can pick it. Do so, ignore the warnings, and you should be all set.

[mirkwood]

I can't select the image -- it won't let me. I can't highlight it with the mouse and get the "OK" button to light up, so I can't select it.

What's going on?

[dnanian]

You should be able to click on it, even though it's grey. If not, just re-enter its name once you're in the right folder.

[mirkwood]

No, I cannot click on it. It won't let me. If it's supposed to, then this is a bug.

I also have no place where I can enter the name manually.

This is the file browser dialog that I get:
http://www.mirkwood.com/yard/sd.jpg

Is there supposed to be a place to enter the filename manually somewhere?

Remember I'm trying to select the image as the source, not the destination, so it's a different file browser dialog.

[dnanian]

This is the "source" panel, not the "destination" one. You can't select a sparse image file as the source for a copy, only a mounted volume or a DMG.

[jay]

Hello,

From your question: "I want to now copy that sparseimage to another firewire drive so that it overwrites the target drive, ie make a bootable firewire drive."

A firewire drive can be bootable, but, not with a Sparseimage. You would have to select your second firewire drive as the destination, not "Disk Image". If you need to store other data on the same drive, it could be partitioned. Good luck!

jay

[mirkwood]

Hi Jay,

Not sure what you're getting at...I think you might have confused what I was asking about? I was chosing the second firewire drive as the destination. I wanted to use a disk image as the source. Which turns out that you just need to mount the sparseimage first, then choose the mounted image as the source (virtual) drive.

At any rate it's all resolved now.