Creating and ISO image on a Mac in OSX
Creating disk images on a mac is easy. If you have an older version of OS X you should see a program called Disk Copy in your Utilities folder. If you use OS X > 10.4 your Disk Utility will do the trick.
Just go to File > New and create an image of any volume on your computer. That’s the easy part.
How to turn the Disk Utility created image from .dmg to .iso
Right so for some reason they don’t give you the option to output to an iso directly so you’ll need to do some hacker. Assuming your newly created .dmg or .cdr image in on your desktop, open the ol’ terminal and run this snazy prog that should already be on your machine:
hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o ~/Desktop/file.iso ~/Desktop/file.dmg
Why might you need to do this?
Heck I don’t know. If your image ever needs to be compatible for your lowley windows using friends then you’ll probably need to know this.
I NEEDED to do it for use with Virtual PC. That’s right, in order to create a .iso disk image that you can capture with Virtual PC you need the image format to be in a windows compatible iso. The only reason I need to use Virtual PC is that Kaplan and ETS still don’t support Mac. If grad schools require the test they should make the study material accessable to everyone!
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“so you’ll need to do some hacker”
Are you implying that I need to have sex with a Hacker to ger an ISO image from a Mac? That seems a little extreme.
Some may attribut the missing “y” at the end of hacker as a freudian slip where I just desperately need some action
Even I know how to do that. Even avery knows how to do that. And he is lord of the elves.
thanks..this helps for parallels
If you select dvd/cd master for the image type it will create a .cdr file. Then you can just rename it to .iso. No Hacker involved.