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meetpd
meetpd

Reputation: 9219

How to make bootable DVD for Mac OS X?

HI,

I have MAC OS X 10.6.4 dmg file. I want to make bootable DVD.

Do I have to convert it to ISO? Or just burning dmg file will do?

Any other things that needs to be done to make it bootable?

Please let me know.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 63081

Answers (1)

Cody Gray
Cody Gray

Reputation: 244913

If the .DMG file that you have is an image of an original Mac OS X 10.6.4 DVD, it will already be bootable. All you have to do is burn the image to a DVD, using Apple's Disk Utility (found in the /Applications/Utilities folder on any Mac OS X installation).

If your .DMG file is illegally obtained, it may or may not include a proper boot sector, and in that case, you're on your own. Buy a legal copy of Mac OS X if you want to use it; it's more than reasonably priced.

A .DMG file is an Apple Disk Image, commonly found in the Mac world instead of the .ISO image file format common in Windows. You can easily convert between the two formats using Disk Utility or a host of other utilities. However, there should be no need to do this unless you are trying to burn the image from a Windows-based PC and your burning software of choice does not support burning from .DMG images, you may need to convert it to an ISO. Nero Burning ROM supports burning .DMG images, as does the free and most excellent MagicISO. Alternatively, dmg2iso can convert the image to an .ISO for burning in the software of your choice (of course, you more than likely will still not be able to read the contents of the image file in Windows because Mac OS X uses a different type of file system).

Upvotes: 11

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