Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds?

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
ch you can get to from the finder using apple-shift-u. > > CB > > hank smith wrote: >> >> how do I boot to a external hard drive? >> also what is the utility called? >> - Original Message - >> From: Chris Blouch >> To: macvisionaries@googlegr

Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds?

2009-08-31 Thread Chris Blouch
isionaries@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:55 AM > *Subject:* Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds? > > That doesn't break it into two pieces. A single external volume of > sufficient size could hold your 6GB image. Disk util

Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds?

2009-08-27 Thread hank smith
how do I boot to a external hard drive? also what is the utility called? - Original Message - From: Chris Blouch To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:55 AM Subject: Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds? That doesn't break it

Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds?

2009-08-27 Thread ben mustill-rose
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 wrote: > That doesn't break it into two pieces. A single external volume of > suff

Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds?

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Blouch
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 wro

Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds?

2009-08-26 Thread ben mustill-rose
Would something like http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1233627 be possible? On 26/08/2009, Chris Blouch 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 virt

Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds?

2009-08-26 Thread Chris Blouch
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 spli

Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds?

2009-08-25 Thread hank smith
you could but once your format the dmg is gone - Original Message - From: "ben mustill-rose" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:12 PM Subject: Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds? > > To be honest, your probably going to be better off buying some dule >

Re: program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds?

2009-08-25 Thread ben mustill-rose
To be honest, your probably going to be better off buying some dule layer dvd's; most of the newer macs have dule layer burners anyway. Another option might be to try and find a program that will write the dmg to usb and then to boot from usb but I can't give you any names at the moment. This may

program to split a 6 gig dmg in to 2 dvds?

2009-08-25 Thread hank smith
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 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups