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Pikaporeon	Jan 12 2006, 07:04 PM Post #1
Advanced Curveball Champion! ...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70	As some of you may know, Macs use DMG as a disk image format - Not something native to a PC. Bottom line is, my mac doesnt have a DVD burner, simply a DVD drive, and I need to burn a DMG image to use on my mac from my PC [where I downloaded it] Any way for me to burn this and maintain file stability etc? -------------------- A British company is developing small computer chips that can store music in women's breasts. This is considered a major breakthrough since women complain about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

Awai	Jan 13 2006, 12:27 PM Post #2
Waiting For... Group: Moderator Posts: 382 Joined: 18-March 04 From: ~beyond the sea Member No.: 19	behold my lazy responce in the form of a url: http://www.computing.net/mac/wwwboard/forum/10311.html :D Awai. -------------------- "You look into her eyes and it’s more than your heart will allow And in August and Everything After you get a little less than you expected somehow."

Pikaporeon	Jan 13 2006, 09:47 PM Post #3
Advanced Curveball Champion! ...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70	dmg2iso crashes out whenever I try to run it -_- -------------------- A British company is developing small computer chips that can store music in women's breasts. This is considered a major breakthrough since women complain about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

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Jan 14 2006, 09:04 AM

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then see to this url - http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...040121135301830

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I found this out a while ago when looking for info on reading .DMG files on Windows or Linux boxes. I found out it was not possible, and I wasn't too happy. You see, my iMac has no CD-R drive, just a CD-ROM. This tip creates ISO images from DMG images, so they can be burned elsewhere. To convert the file to an ISO image, type the following command at your terminal window:

hdiutil convert /path/to/filename.dmg -format UDTO -o /path/to/savefile.iso

Replace /path/to/filename.dmg with the path and name of the existing .DMG file, and replace /path/to/savefile.iso with the desired path and name for the converted image.

This then creates an ISO image burnable in Nero on Windows, or pretty much anything on Windows that will burn ISOs and same with Linux. I just converted a DMG image as a test, and it took a while -- it only converted at about 1MByte per secoond, but I only have a 333Mhz imac G3, so speed wise, it may be good.

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Pikaporeon	Jan 15 2006, 05:33 PM Post #5
Advanced Curveball Champion! ...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70	Yep, that course of action occured to me, except the issue that this is a 2 gb image and I cant exactly get it back to my PC with the DVD burner to burn to DVD properly. -------------------- A British company is developing small computer chips that can store music in women's breasts. This is considered a major breakthrough since women complain about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

Deepone	Jan 15 2006, 06:43 PM Post #6
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Pikaporeon	Jan 15 2006, 08:09 PM Post #7
Advanced Curveball Champion! ...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70	Or an external DVD burner? ;p This post has been edited by Pikaporeon: Jan 16 2006, 06:12 PM -------------------- A British company is developing small computer chips that can store music in women's breasts. This is considered a major breakthrough since women complain about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

Awai	Jan 16 2006, 01:07 PM Post #8
Waiting For... Group: Moderator Posts: 382 Joined: 18-March 04 From: ~beyond the sea Member No.: 19	okay another option - grab a linux boot CD - burn two copies and get a rj45 network cable - link the mac and the pc together with it, boot both into linux and transfer the file using the local network :) Awai. -------------------- "You look into her eyes and it’s more than your heart will allow And in August and Everything After you get a little less than you expected somehow."

Pikaporeon	Jan 16 2006, 06:13 PM Post #9
Advanced Curveball Champion! ...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70	The solution I'm going with now is I'm going to throw the image onto my iPod and transfer that way The only problem now is to keep my mac stable for long enough to convert it (the file is an OS; my Kernel has serious corruption and I need to boot to a mac os CD to fix the problem, generally speaking the comp works fine except when put under decent load.) -------------------- A British company is developing small computer chips that can store music in women's breasts. This is considered a major breakthrough since women complain about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

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