[TriLUG] Burning MAC dmg's under Linux (now OT)

[Ian Meyer]

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I have someJaguar CDs you're welcome to borrow, but they're "upgrade" 
discs, and when I had to reinstall once i had to reinstall 10.1 then 
upgrade to 10.2

let me know
Ian


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On Nov 25, 2003, at 10:34 AM, Ken Mink wrote:

> Hi Bradford,
>   Thanks for the help. Neither method worked however. The hdiutil
> command produced a file with a 'cdr' extension. I burned it and got the
> same errors. I then tried dd'ing the device file while the dmg image 
> was
> mounted. I got an error about the device being in use.
>   I think I'm just screwed. The reason I'm going through this is that I
> installed Panther and it doesn't like my video card. The video is 
> almost
> undecipherable. I am trying to burn some dmg images of Jaguar I got 
> from
> a friend to do a re-install. I bought the machine used with Jaguar
> installed, but no cds.
>   Is it possible to do an install from the mounted dmg images? I have a
> feeling it is not.
>
> Ken
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 16:31, Bradford Powell wrote:
>> On Monday 24 November 2003 15:59, Ken Mink wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>   I have a some dmg cd images that I need to burn for my Mac. .....
>>
>> I'm not sure, but you could try (from the OS X terminal)
>> hdiutil convert <diskimage.dmg> -format UDTO -o <diskimage.toast>
>>  (replacing <diskimage.dmg> and <diskimage.toase> with appropriate 
>> names).
>>
>> Files created by diskimage are not (in general) simple isos but have 
>> many
>> options for compression. 'man hdiutil' says that the UDTO format is 
>> "DVD/CD-R
>> export".I've seen UDTO referred to online as a ".toast" file, but I 
>> _think_
>> that an image in this format should be burnable by cdrecord.
>>
>> If that doesn't work you could try mounting the disk image on OS X, 
>> finding
>> what device it uses for the disk, and use dd to copy from the device 
>> to a
>> file. But I'm not sure if a disk image gets mapped to a device when 
>> mounted
>> like that...
>>
>> -- Bradford Powell
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