Since he's not going to be able to split it and he didn't like my idea
of buying some dule layer dvd's, the only solution that I can think of
is cloaning it to some form of usb storage.

On 27/08/2009, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
> That doesn't break it into two pieces. A single external volume of
> sufficient size could hold your 6GB image. Disk utility can clone your
> DMG to another device (USB thumb drive, hard drive or whatever). You
> just can't use a DMG that's been cut into two separate volumes.
>
> CB
>
> ben mustill-rose wrote:
>> Would something like
>> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1233627
>> be possible?
>>
>> On 26/08/2009, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If this is an installer, I don't think you can split it. DMG files get
>>> mounted up as disk drives and so the installer can and will seek for
>>> files all over the virtual disk. There is no requirement that they pull
>>> in all the files from one and then move to the rest. There are lots of
>>> ways to split a file in pieces, but you'll have to combine them together
>>> before you can use it. If they are just data files then there is no need
>>> for the DMG. Beyond that you would need to have intimate knowledge of
>>> which files are needed when and make a custom installer, probably beyond
>>> the scope of work you wanted to tackle.
>>>
>>> CB
>>>
>>> hank smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> hello I have a 6 gig dmg
>>>> this is a bootable disk
>>>> need to split this in to 2 dvds have it ask me to hit enter when
>>>> second disk is inserted
>>>> what program will do this?
>>>>
>>>> Hank
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>


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