Burn Mountain Lion Dmg To Dvd Windows

Make a bootable image copy of OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion after downloading the App from the store but before installing on your drive. Copy the image to a local drive or make a bootable external disk or DVD.

6 thoughts on “ Create OS X Mountain Lion Bootable USB from Windows ” Cris May 26, 2014 at 13:09. One question, you say that you need the OS in an ISO format, will it work if I have it on a.dmg format? Dec 10, 2012  The OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installer will fit on a Singe Layer DVD, if that helps. Thus you could use a goo Windows burning program to burn the DMG/ISO you. In Disk Utility, select InstallESD.dmg in the sidebar Click the Burn button in the toolbar. When prompted, insert a blank DVD (a single-layer disc should work, although you can use a dual-layer.

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After downloading the Mountain Lion.App from the store aka “Install Mac OS X Mountain Lion”, find it in the /Applications directory, control click it to bring up a contextual menu and select “Show Package Contents” from the menu.

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This brings up a Contents folder, from here navigate to Contents/Shared Support/InstallESD.dmg, and thats the disk image to burn, it contains all the goodies.

Double click it, you can skip the verifying process, then the disk image mounts as a volume in the sidebar.

Image to Bootable DVD

Select the mounted volume in the sidebar then either click on the burn icon if you have it set up or choose the option from the File menu, pop in a blank DVD and thats a job done.

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You can also use /Utilities/Disk Utility to do the same thing, just launch Disk Utility, highlight the InstallESD.dmg and burn.

Copy to Local Drive

To keep a separate image of the dmg, option drag a copy to your desktop, this will make a copy of the InstallESD.dmg leaving the original Lion app intact.

Open DMG Files with DMG ExtractorDMG extractor provides another choice for extracting DMG files. You cannot extract encrypted files. The works well, but it does have some limitations:. Install dmg file on linux. You cannot extract files bigger than 4 GB. Choose “Extract Files” to select a folder where the files are extracted, “Extract Here” to extract files to the same folder where the DMG file is, or “Extract to foldername” to create a new folder named after the DMG file and extract the files to that new folder.The speed of the extraction depends on the size of the DMG file and the speed of your PC.When the extraction is finished, you can browse the files in a regular File Explorer window.You can view or edit the files using any of the regular File Explorer features or whatever apps you use.

Image to a Bootable External Disk

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To make a bootable image to a drive instead of a disk, you need to do a restore in Disk Utility, select the InstallESD.dmg as the source and the disk volume as the destination. Enusure that the destination volume is correctly formatted as HFS+ Extended Journaled. Click “Restore”.

If you haven’t got the Mountain Lion App to start with and can’t re-download it from the App store, you can still make a partial boot drive from the hidden Recovery Partition, check it out.

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Novecento

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Hey folks,
what started as a thread seeking for help I now convert to a HOWTO: Burn a LiON DVD on a Windows PC.
For all of those who don't have a DVD burner in their Mac or don't have a USB (flash) drive at hand or simply want to use some of those now-useless DVD-Rs they have lying around here's what you need to do:
1. Copy the InstallESD.dmg from the Lion Installer.app someplace eg /tmp
2. Open terminal.app and type in the following command
hdiutil convert -format UDTO /tmp/InstallESD.dmg -o /tmp/Lion.iso
3. rename Lion.iso.cdr to Lion.iso
4. Copy it to a Windows PC
5. Burn with ImgBurn ( ww.imgburn.com ), a Single Layer 4,7GB DVD-R is enough
Note: don't burn too fast otherwise your Mac might not want to boot from the disc - at least that's what bugged me the first time I tried
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