Re: [NTLK] Newton Museum DVD Torrent - What is a .DMG file?

The '.cdr' format which Disk Utility.app (and probably the 'hdiutil'
command line utility) can generate is a bit-for-bit image, so is safe
to burn from most Windows, Linux, etc., burning applications, but
many '.dmg' files are compressed and so are probably not safe to burn.

However, if it works for you, great! If you want to attempt it, I
hope you don't mind making coasters. Otherwise you'll want to use the
utilities that Victor notes below.

Sincerely,

Morgan Aldridge

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On Jun 27, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> Clayton Fixsen wrote:
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only thing you have to do with a  
>> (non
>> encrypted) .dmg file to burn it using Nero is just change the file  
>> extension
>> to .iso.
>> I have successfully burned several mac CD and DVD images in a  
>> pinch on a
>> windows machine using this method, and never once had a problem.
>>
>
> I don't think it's quite that simple, but the Wikipedia page has  
> links to
> some free tools for multiple platforms to convert DMG to ISO:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dmg
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