Burning Disk image for Windows

[santanudas]

Hi,

Since few days I'm trying to get a work around to burn a CD on my Mac, off a disk image which I created from a folder. After burning, I get it perfectly okay on Mac but on Windows it appearing as a empty (not *BLANK*) disk. I suspect that it’s creating a HFS+ formatted disk and that’s why Windows can’t read it. When created the disk image using Disk Utility, I selected File >New >Disk image from Folder… and “DVD/CD master” as Image Format type. Did I do any thing wrong? I even tried with creating a .dmg, then convert it into .cdr and then change the extension to iso but no good so far. Any help from anybody?

For some additional info, if I make a disk image from a Windows CD and burn the image on to a CD again, that becomes perfectly okay on Windows. But the problem is there if I make the image from a folder.

Thanks in advance for you help.

 

[duncdude]

ISO 9660


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[santanudas]

thanx Duncan for your reply but my question ws how to make ISO 9660 formatted image off a folder on Mac OS X Tiger. Cheers!!!!

 

[ObviousTroll]

You might try creating a DMG, dropping the folder into the DMG and then using the DMG as the image to burn.

 

[santanudas]

Here is the problem: if I create a .dmg and then burn the image onto a disk the disk being formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) which windows cannot read. But if the image itself is an ISO 9660 formatted, then the disk is readable by Windows after burning. Any more thoughts??

 

[duncdude]

Hi santanudas

I should have paid a bit more attention to what you were saying - sorry

I think something is odd here - i seem to remember being able to do this on earlier OS X... but now it has gone. Or maybe my mind has gone... who knows?

Read this, for example!?

http://support.stat.ucla.edu/view.php?supportid=20

I am very confused!

But it can be done with Roxio Toast - or a cheaper utility like Dragon Burn (not that i have ever tried it)

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail~dpno~179785.asp

It takes about 1 week for the web page to load - but it does eventually


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[ObviousTroll]

Santanudas,

Like Duncan, I thought this used to work - but you may need to make the DMG a certain way to get it in iso9660 format.

Looking at the "new image" dialog in disk utility, there are a couple of settings labeled as CD images. Maybe one of those?

Alternately, Duncan may be right - you may have to buy toast or dragon burn.

 

[santanudas]

Hi there,
Many thanks to Duncan and ObviousTroll for your reply.

After reading a few articles and having an hr & half almost useless talk with Apple customer care, now, I strongly believe that the only option to make ISO 9660 image off a folder on OS X Tiger is to use a third-party s/w like Tosta. “CD/DVD Master” option supposed to be work but don't.

Therefore as a free alternative, I'm going back to my good, old friend Linux to create the ISO image and importing back on OS X to burn. A bit time consuming, especially if it's a 4 GB image, to transfer over network but I can't see any better free option.

Cheers,
Santanu

 

[malfunction54]

Hey santanudas, I've run into this same problem, and here's my solution. Unfortunately, it's command line (I'm writing an applescript droplet to do this, though).

$ hdiutil makehybrid -iso -o outputImageName /path/to/src/folder

then you can do one of 2 things:
1)

$ hdiutil burn outputImageName

2) open DiskUtility and burn it from there.

If you're interested in the droplet I mentioned, let me know and I'll send you something when I have it working.

Cheers!

-MF54

 

[santanudas]

Hi MF54,

Many thanks for the information. I'll give a try when I get back to home.

I'd really appreciate if you kindly send me the droplet you are working on, at your convenient.

Santanu

 

[malfunction54]

Santanudas, here is the droplet I've been working on.

http://lego.therac25.net/code/ISODropFolder.applescript

I haven't finished the icon yet, so I haven't posted the complete app. You can compile it in XCode pretty easily. I just wanted to get this out there so you could try it out. Let me know if you have any issues with it so I can improve it. I'll also let you know when I get the icon done as well.

-MF54