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OS9 / .dmg question
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Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but:
I picked up a used 1st gen. ti book to basically become the library for this NGS on CD software that will only run on OS9, no current version planned:
The Complete National Geographic
National Geographic Magazine CD-ROMs: Technical Support, Help
The idea was to do the same thing I have with some mapping software in which I no longer need to insert the 6 individual CD's and instead have disk images of them that work much faster and are on board the laptop.
The mapping software is current OS, it understands the DMG files just fine.
I get blank icons when I copy it to the ol'' PB using OS 9.1, no app to open them.
Of course I use the OSX machine to make the DMG's so that's where this all starts.
I would love to get the volume of this onto the HD since it is 31 CDs. I want the computer to simply become the whole volume self standing.
But who knows? This just may be one of those bridges that does not exist.
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"I'll take a extra layer of ram on that
gigaflop sandwich mister"
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dmg files are os x only, you gotta put them as .img files using os 9 utility diskcopy..
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I bet you could mount DMG files using the latest version of Roxio Toast for OS 9, but I'm not sure.
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There was a copy of Disk Copy that was able to mount DMG files, but Apple never released it to the general public, so I don't think it will be available anywhere.
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Curious: So how do you know about it then?
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I believe it was made available to developers who were receiving the Developer Preview builds of Mac OS X 10.0. The install CDs were made available as DMGs through the ADC seeding program IIRC. That version of Disk Copy for OS 9 was a beta version that could handle DMG files but was never released as a final version.
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why dont you just zip the files?
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Originally Posted by WJMoore 
Curious: So how do you know about it then?
To be honest, I don't remember where I first read about it, but it used to be fairly commonly known that there was a build of Disk Copy that was only available to developers which mounted DMG files.
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Originally Posted by kick52
why dont you just zip the files?
Probably because the software is looking for a CD.
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I think that Disk Copy 6.4 was included with the Mac OS X Public Beta, but I'm not sure. There were a few OS 8 things included with it, such as a new Startup Disk app that would let you switch between two bootable folders on the same drive. That feature was eventually included in the basic OS 9, but as you say, Disk Copy 6.4 never was. System 9.2.2 still features Disk Copy 6.3.3.
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