Easily convert DMG images to ISO
Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks, How to
If you’ve ever wanted to turn a DMG file into an ISO file, look no further. Perhaps your Mac doesn’t have a writable media drive, or it’s not up to speed, or the multitude of other reasons you’d want to burn an ISO from a PC rather than a DMG on your Mac. Forget downloading the shareware apps that promise to convert DMG files to ISO, you can do it right from Mac OS X’s command line, for free, using the hdiutil command.
hdiutil convert imagefile.dmg -format UDTO -o imagefile.iso
This will actually create a file called imagefile.iso.cdr in the current directory, but you’ll want to change that to just .iso, so type:
mv imagefile.iso.cdr imagefile.iso
That’s all there is to it, now your DMG image file can be burned on any PC with the proper hardware.
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Comments: 4
Comment from anon
Time: March 28, 2007, 2:16 pm
just burn it on your mac, every new mac comes with a burner anyway
you can burn iso on mac too
Comment from phummers
Time: March 28, 2007, 3:37 pm
@anon:
“just burn it on your mac, every new mac comes with a burner anyway”
What percentage of Mac users do you think have new Macs?
Comment from Frank
Time: March 29, 2007, 8:55 am
@anon, not all new macs have an dvd burner, and not all dvd burners have dual layer
Comment from yopy
Time: October 30, 2007, 12:12 pm
Does that work with a boot mac CD?
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