How do I burn .dmg to thumbdrive on PC

JoesMorgue · #1 05-06-2009, 10:42 AM

I don't have a running Mac yet, and I don't want to burn a ton of DVDs that don't werk.

Can somebody tell me how I can copy a DVD image to a memory stick on a PC?

I'm running Vista (shudder) and have magicCD installed

naquaada · #2 05-06-2009, 11:44 AM

This is not so easy. A .dmg is not only a DVD image, it can also be an archive for files or a backup from a complete harddisk with more partitions. A program which can handle .dmg DVD images is UltraISO.

JoesMorgue · #3 05-06-2009, 11:46 AM

Sorry, its an .ISO, not .DMG

naquaada · #4 05-06-2009, 12:01 PM

Then you must specify 'copy'.

If you want to copy the .ISO as file to an USB stick you only have to drop it on it

But USB sticks are normally formatted in FAT32 format which doesn' support files with 4GB size. So you have to split the .ISO file in multiple parts, f.e. with WinRAR and depack it one the computer you need it.

If you mean you want to restore an ISO to an USB stick instead of burning to a DVD, so that you can boot from USB, I think this is not possible because a DVD has different boot routines than an USB stick. I created an bootable installation DVD on my Mac, but it needed some tricks, and this can't be done on an PC.

Could you specify a bit more you want to do?

JoesMorgue · #5 05-06-2009, 12:08 PM

I want to put iPC Live on a bootable 8 Gig (Currently NTFS) Thumbdrive and boot off of it. Instead of burning DVDs while trying to get OSX installed on my Compaq.

naquaada · #6 05-06-2009, 12:11 PM

Oh, I just saw that you're using an SATA DVD-ROM. This is often problematic. I recommend IDE for DVD-ROM and OS X boot drive. If you can't connect the DVD to IDE, maybe try it using on an USB port, at least for an installation.

Do you want to use a combined harddisk for Windows and OS X? I can only recommend seperated harddisks. It is possible that you can't change partitions in Windows on an drive which was used once in the Mac's Disk Utility, at least I had the problem using with Partition Magic 8. I only could change partitions again after deleting the MBR which means complete data loss. If you partition harddrives in GUID partition table (which is default for Intel Macs) it may possible that it's not possible to boot from them anymore, even after rewring the MBR. I had this problem several times.

60 GB are much too less for OS X. For testing purposes it may work, but not if you want to have fun with OS X. My system uses actually 57 GB virtual memory. I'm using complete different boot and data harddisks. You can take a look at my installation guide.

JoesMorgue · #7 05-06-2009, 01:03 PM

My DEAD G4 (400Mhz) is 400Mhz, it was running with a 20 Gig (Tiger) boot, and a 10 Gig secondary.

I found a NTFS driver that let me access (read/write) my 500 Gig external that was formatted NTFS just fine.

Because of this, I figure that I will have full access to the 450 Gigs formatted NTFS, and a later question would be if Leopard can be configured so Vertual Memory, desktop, and possibly other things are not on the boot drive...(No, I will NOT try to put them on the 1.7/1.8TB Netwerk)

norcimo · #8 05-06-2009, 09:09 PM

The way I did was using an existing mac.

I copied the IPC-DL.ISO file to the desktop

I formatted my 8gig usb imation drive on the mac. 4 gig works too..on the regular IPC.

Using the disk utility, I restored the .iso file onto my USB drive.

Then I used OSX86 tools , "Install EFI/ run fdisk" on the USB drive.

Done.

My USB thumb drive has IPC on it, it boots up FAST, I can install IPC not spend time
with long periods of wait bootup time. great for experimenting on many PCs.