dmg2iso: anyone got it to work?

sniggit · Post by **sniggit** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:14 pm

downloaded a perl script called dmg2iso.pl.

with zlib support i got it to convert. the .dmg (compressed mac only image format) to .iso format. the size of the new .iso file was 100mb-ish bigger than the original .dmg which lmust mean it has been uncompressed, but i cant burn it in k3b or mount the image.

anyone else tried this script? really need to burn that .dmg image so it can boot on a mac.

vidigiani · Post by **vidigiani** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 5:16 pm

Same problem here, unfortunately. After grabbing the Zlib codec for perl it seems to complete successfully and create an iso ~3x as large as the dmg, but I can't mount it with loop as an iso9660.

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:42 pm

That's weird, I just mounted and burned successfully a dmg image converted to iso using dmg2iso. Are you using version 0.2a?

Just to be sure, here are some links:

http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/ - "Official" page, seems to be down.
http://www.emaculation.com/dmg2iso.zip

r3pek · Post by **r3pek** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:08 am

anyone solved this? 'cause i'm getting the same problem.....

posthuman_5 · Post by **posthuman_5** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:08 pm

u need to :

emerge Compress-Zlib

then run dmg2iso.pl image.dmg image.iso

CarloJekko · Post by **CarloJekko** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:21 pm

this is my output with my file

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dmg2iso v0.2a by vu1tur (vu1tur@gmx.de)

PropertyList is corrupted
reading property list...

It doesn't work properly

Elsipkitch9809 · Post by **Elsipkitch9809** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:34 pm

I know this is a dead post but I found a way to convert dmgs under linux and wanted to post it up in case anyone else is having trouble.

I couldn't use the perl version of the program; even though I am 100% sure my dmgs mount correctly and are not corrupt, it would never work. However, downloading the windows executable and running wine on it makes it work perfectly. I couldn't get the source code to compile since it has some type errors, but I'm sure it could be patched or something. In any case, the windows version seems to work correctly.

I hope a patched version gets into portage though (any takers?

)

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:21 am

I used dmg2iso on Linux to make a MacOS 9.1 CD. It wasn't bootable but worked otherwise. I couldn't mount it either, but I think it was HFS instead of ISO9660.

If I want to be sure a DMG will work, I use UltraISO in WINE. It can make bin/cue images, but the misnamed ISO output option also seems to work, despite not necessarily producing ISO9660 filesystem images.