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How do I burn .dmg to thumbdrive on PC
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 |
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.
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Sorry, its an .ISO, not .DMG
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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? |
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.
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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. |
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) |
Tiger was needing less harddisk space for the operating system and because of this maybe less pace for the OS itself. A PPC system may be handle the memory different, too. I don't use Windows anymore, only OSx86, so I can format my HD's completely in HFS+... 2.32 GB in one computer (of three).
I don't think that the Live DVD of the iPC image would work on AMD because iPC is mostly written for Intel. I had a lot of problems on my nForce 4 system with that image. You also need to add the board manufacturer and name. The gfx card is onboard, right? |
OK, I'm hooked.
I WANT Leopard on this machine...What do you recommend? I will download it, burn it and try it EXACTLY as you recommend. According to Compaq I have: Iris8-GL6 Bios simulator Athlon X2 (B) 4450e 2.3 GHz (45W) 2000 MT/s (mega transfers/second) Socket AM2 GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 chipset 3 GB installed memory PC2-6400 MB/sec 240 pin, DDR2 SDRAM Integrated 10/100 Base-T networking interface USB 2.0 Link: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN I know this will be at my risk, NON-Mac HDs will be turned off during installation process to protect other data. Please provide links to downloads so I can be sure I'm getting what your recommending. Off-site is acceptable if it makes you feel more comfortable. |
Important for an OSx86 installation are cpu, gfx card and motherboard. One the motherboard you have to know the chipset, the audio chip and the network interface.
Your mainboard is: ECS MCP61PM-HM Chipset: nForce 430 Audio: ALC888 Ethernet: Realtek RTL8201N Luckily I can say you that every onboard component is supported :D Your chipset is supported by AppleNForceATA.kext, ALC888 Audio are some variations available I think. The RTL8201 chip series was often problematic for some users. I have in my microATX-board (Fujitsu-Simens OEM board, see Black µMac in my signature) has an RTL8201CL chip. It was working fine for internet, but when there were long file transfers in the network the computer could crash. But now there's a new driver, nForceLAN, and this works perfect with my chip, I could even transfer a 7 GB image. I don't know about the onboard gfx, but the nvidia 6xxx series isn't very well supported and normally onboard gfx isn't very nice. I had to exchange all gfx cards of my systems <sigh> because the were too slow for Quicktime 7.6 and I compared a lot of gfx cards before buying a new one. I found at least the ATI Radeon HD2600XT. This thing isn't the newest and maybe not the most powerful thing, but it only consumes 50W power, a Radeon HD4870 can use up to 285W, it's crazy! Faster nVidia gfx cards aren't better. Very good is also that there are various heatpipe versions out there, the one from Gigabyte is only one slot wide. Perfect for microATX-boards like yours, you don't waste a slot. The costs on ebay are about 20-50 Euro. This HD2600XT is perfectly supported, Dual-Monitor up to 2048x1536 and TV-Out are working great. With the images, hm. I can give you a mediafire link for the XxX 10.5.6 Final 2 image. This thing continues all files you need. On the other hand, I noticed that all 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 images I tested were slower than a Leo4All 10.5.3 to 10.5.6 update. I won't install a 10.5.6 system anymore, I'll install a 10.5.2 system and then update directly to 10.5.7 when the update is out. I'll write about my experiences then. But this doesn't mean you should try an installation yet. It is always good to experiment and make own experiences. |