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bitt3n
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'm trying to put OS X 10.4 on my ancient powerbook g3, which has no dvd drive, and I have only a dvd of the OS, and apple's program to replace the original dvd with cds for $10 has expired, so I had someone send me the .dmg image files for the 4 cds, which I planned to burn on my PC (since my g3 has no burner) and then use instead of my OS X 10.4 dvd, but I can't get the g3 to recognize the CDRs.
so far I have tried:
1) converting from dmg to iso with ultraiso and burning with nero
2) converting from dmg to nrg and doing same
3) burning directly with ultraiso
4) buring using transmac
5) burning with alcohol 120% (see below)
6) using a different burner
when I try to burn with alcohol 120%, I get the message "Because an unsupported image file format is being used, you should manually set the track format, block size and other information. You MUST do this to record the image file!" with options to set the Block size, Image header size and Image trailer size. I don't know what these values should be.
the cd drive works fine when I use other mac cds (CDR or not). I have tried burning all 4 discs and none works, so it is unlikely that the problem is a single bad .dmg file. Also in ultraiso and transmac I can navigate through the contents of the .dmg fine (see all the install files).
fwiw under 'properties/filesystem' in ultraiso the Apple HFS+ filesystem is checked and grayed out. The non-grayed out options are Joliet, UDF and Apple HFS.
any advice would be appreciated. thanks
so far I have tried:
1) converting from dmg to iso with ultraiso and burning with nero
2) converting from dmg to nrg and doing same
3) burning directly with ultraiso
4) buring using transmac
5) burning with alcohol 120% (see below)
6) using a different burner
when I try to burn with alcohol 120%, I get the message "Because an unsupported image file format is being used, you should manually set the track format, block size and other information. You MUST do this to record the image file!" with options to set the Block size, Image header size and Image trailer size. I don't know what these values should be.
the cd drive works fine when I use other mac cds (CDR or not). I have tried burning all 4 discs and none works, so it is unlikely that the problem is a single bad .dmg file. Also in ultraiso and transmac I can navigate through the contents of the .dmg fine (see all the install files).
fwiw under 'properties/filesystem' in ultraiso the Apple HFS+ filesystem is checked and grayed out. The non-grayed out options are Joliet, UDF and Apple HFS.
any advice would be appreciated. thanks