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?
Full Version: Using my PC to burn a DVD-DMG
behold my lazy responce in the form of a url:
http://www.computing.net/mac/wwwboard/forum/10311.html
Awai.
http://www.computing.net/mac/wwwboard/forum/10311.html
Awai.
dmg2iso crashes out whenever I try to run it 
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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. |
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.
get external USB-harddrive or something and problem solved 
(I would recommend 250GB version from Lacie, this P3 only USB model - here it costs only 149€ from the shop I work at)
(I would recommend 250GB version from Lacie, this P3 only USB model - here it costs only 149€ from the shop I work at)
Or an external DVD burner? ;p
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.
Awai.
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.)
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.)
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