Burning DVD from Mac to PC across a network or other cable

newfoundglory

This might at first, seem a bit of a strange thing to do.

I have a very large disk image (.dmg) on my mac (osx 10.4), which doesnt have a DVD burner. So, i would like to burn this across a network (or any other sort of supported cable... eg firewire), to an internal DVD writer on my PC.

I can't just copy this file over a network, as this disk image has to be burned using Apple's Disk Utilty - so that the disk is bootable!

Basically, this optical DVD writer drive on the PC has to be mounted on my mac somehow so that i can select it in disk utilty.

Any osx/windows experts out there who know how i can do this please!! I suspect that for sharing reasons on the macosx/unix side, samba is going to be involved here....

cheers:beer:

black_pudding_2

newfoundglory wrote:

This might at first, seem a bit of a strange thing to do.

I have a very large disk image (.dmg) on my mac (osx 10.4), which doesnt have a DVD burner. So, i would like to burn this across a network (or any other sort of supported cable... eg firewire), to an internal DVD writer on my PC.

I can't just copy this file over a network, as this disk image has to be burned using Apple's Disk Utilty - so that the disk is bootable!

Basically, this optical DVD writer drive on the PC has to be mounted on my mac somehow so that i can select it in disk utilty.

Any osx/windows experts out there who know how i can do this please!! I suspect that for sharing reasons on the macosx/unix side, samba is going to be involved here....

cheers:beer:

dont know if this is of any help to you

patflanel

Doubt if you will be able to do this by using the pc to burn it directly.
You could try to convert the .dmg to a format that the PC can read (use Disk Utility- convert) and then transfer the file to the PC and burn it.

Moneymaker

You don't say what Mac you have but if it's a tower then fitting a Superdrive isn't too difficult and you can buy one for under £50. Otherwise, the answer is to buy a Firewire DVD burner and use "Toast" to burn the disc.

Moneymaker

Actually, easier still: find a Mac user who has a DVD burner and a Firewire Hard Drive. Borrow the Hard Drive, plug it into your Mac, transfer the file and get him to burn it to disc.

If it's a problem, just contact the London Mac User Group. Or the Yorkshire Mac User Group (who have members that work in London).