How do I burn a disk from XP for use on a Mac?

josbd · Dec 5, 2005

I apologise in advance for knowing nothing of the arcane (to me!) world of Macs!

I have downloaded a .dmg file on my xp pc for my bro who uses a mac (OSX) and am now wondering whether I can just burn this as it is, straight to a disk; or do I need to reformat it? If so, what would I need to do?

Any advice gratefully received, as always!

Cheers!

SNGX1275 · Dec 5, 2005

How big is the .dmg, if I were you I'd just burn it as a straight file and then give to him. Then he could open the file directly off the disk and it will mount the image that that .dmg is.

Rick · Dec 5, 2005

.DMG is kind of like a .ISO format for Macintosh. The only way to burn a .DMG image is using a Mac... Because I'm not aware of any PC utiilties that handle that file type.

The built in Mac OS Disc Utility can mount the image and you can burn it from there.

Maybe you can share the file over the network or via a thumb drive or other mass storage device with enough MB?

jobeard · Dec 5, 2005

I have found the CD/RW formats can cause problems, while creating
the r/o CDROM works well. ALL CDs are variations of ISO-9660 specs
(there's sever mods) but the directories are best kept to short names.

If you are carefull, a CD can be mounted on any system while the
content may be system specific and unusable in some environments
eg: foo.exe doesn't run on a Mac

see this for additional information

josbd · Dec 5, 2005

ok, shall give it a whirl, and see what happens.

The file is 500Mb, btw.

Thanks all!

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