[Neo.cmg]

Hi,

I purchased a Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 license from Microsoft's Windows Marketplace, which allows you to immediately download the OS. I am hoping to use this with BootCamp under Leopard on my Mac. However, the files which it downloads are a boot.wim, install.wim, and a windows executable file which I imagine is used to extract the the contents of the aforementioned windows image files.

I'm without a Windows installation of any kind at the moment, and I'm wondering, does anyone know how I might create a bootable .iso file that I can burn to a disk under Mac OS X using these .wim files? I haven't been able to discover anything except possibly with a UNIX command-line tool called mkisofs, but then I'm not quite certain how I might go about using this tool to create the .iso file for my particular case. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[elrah]

maybe this...

Put you vista files in a folder.

open Terminal

hdiutil makehybrid -o "/path/to/output/Vista diskimage" "path/to/input/Vista folder"

obviously replace those file paths with what you actually want the diskimage to be called and the correct path to the vista folder you created. This should give you a cross-platform ISO.

Note - do not add any file extensions in the hdiutil command. e.g. to make your iso "vista install disk" just write that in the file path not "vista install disk.iso".