Hi,

Is there a way to burn a mac bootable image in a PC Burner? The image is a .DMG but I haven't found any PC Burner Software that can read this file as a disk image.

I think I have searched the whole internet but still couldn't find a way to do this.

I have tried

1. ISO Buster 1.7 : Converted DMG to bin/cue. Burnt using Nero. In Mac OS 9.2, it says Files might be corrupt. Only folder and file names are readable. The contents are not.

2. Transmac 7.0 : Burnt the bootable DMG directly to CD. In Mac OS 9.2, it says Files might be corrupt. Only folder and file names are readable. The contents are not.

3. DMG2ISO v0.2c : Unfortunately DMG2ISO generates and error during the conversion. An incomplete ISO file is created which is unusable.

I wonder what else I could try.

Cheers,
McoreD

P.S: For non-bootable DMG files all teh above methods work. Mac OS 9.2 (the one I am using at the moment) can properly read the CD.

I am aware of the current trend of trying to install Mac OS X in PC. This is nothing related to that. I need to burn it to CD to use in an Mac; not to convert to ISO and run in CherryOS or PearPC.

Since all your utilities say it's corrupt, then there is a big chance your dmg file is corrupt.

im assuming pc burner == pc cd burner

DMG2ISO

give that a try.

it will convert the DMG images properly to ISO. I did this with some OSX DMG's and they remained bootable thereafter.

You are absolutely correct.

It appears to be a corrupted a dmg.

Thanks for all your help.

hey well i have a problem too, i dont think their corrupt but...i converted dmg2iso these are small files! they wer eoriginally arud 650mbs!! they were converted into like 3.5mbs!! so can i just slapp dmg's onto a cdr using macdrive 6?

u could try that. do u have a mac around? i so burn the .dmg onto a cd, transfer to the mac, and burn properly with a mac

You could both try using proper English
I don't believe this necessarily required bumpin an old thread.

Hello... Im fairly new to this ... sound familiar?

I have an issue and Im wondering if someone can help...

I have a bootable mac formatted dvd in dmg format that is 7 gigs (DL). I cant burn it on my mac because I can only burn single layer DVDs ... I know I can convert the dmg to a cdr using the disk utility and xfer it to my windows machine so I can burn it there...

I guess my main question is... once I get it there.. will the img still be bootable (by mac) once its been converted to the cdr format and xfered to the windows machine? DL (dual-layer) disks are quite expensive to be *trying* this out... has anyone been successful with this?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated

Try TransMac

Hmmm, a 7 GB bootable disc image.... I wonder what THAT is?

I swear, Apple must sell like three legit copies of every new OS that isn't bundled with a new Mac....

lol, as soon as I saw that post I thought the same thing.

They are doing well, though - they've doubled their market share in PCs in the last two years, to 6%. That's 1/4 the market share of Dell and HP, and nearly equal to Toshiba, a vast improvement. Their market is almost exclusively notebooks, with them controlling nearly 25% of that market.

thumbs up for the ToH release LOL

as far as burning dmgs, I also found a certain dmg that I would like to have bootable after burning....
/shifts eyes
Anyway, I ended up having to do the conversion in OSX since none of the Windows tools would work for me. I put an extra hard drive that I had into my laptop, installed 10.4.10 (mac.nub) and copied the dmg to my laptop (pulled out the drive, used a USB adapter on my desktop and copied the dmg onto an NTFS partition I created). Once the dmg was on there, I put the hard drive back in my laptop, booted OSX and then copied the file (again) to my desktop (for ease of access). I used the following command in terminal to convert this particular dmg into an iso.

once hdiutil finished creating the iso, I copied the new ISO to the root of the OSX partition, shut down OSX, pulled my hard drive out of the laptop and connected it to my desktop using my USB adapter, and using TransMac I was able to copy the iso off the Mac partition and tada, I have the ISO on my PC.
This could also be done with a real mac.
However, unless you can transfer the iso over your network, remember this: OSX can't write to NTFS. It can write to FAT32, however FAT32 has a 4GB filesize limitation. This is why I had to leave the converted iso on my OSX drive and copy it over using TransMac.
Lastly, I had problems with Vista x64 seeing the Mac drive, even with TransMac....oddly enough, a virtual machine I had open running XP (and TransMac) ran fine...odd.
Anyway, hope this helps.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, when hdiutil is finished creating the file, it has the .cdr extension on the end of it. This isn't a big deal, you can just delete the .cdr by renaming the file and it'll work like a regular ISO.