cringemaster Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 This is strange. My Lite-On DVD burner has no problem with Single Layer DVDs, but it wont burn the leopard_client_9a527.dmg image to a dual layer disc I bought just for the occasion. I have no other reasons to burn dual layer DVD's, so i cant really test if its the specific image or not. BTW, I have also tried converting the dmg to a cdr and burning with nero in windows and I get a similar bug. Maybe its my drive? The disc actually never gets touched, because every time I pop it back in it shows up as blank, even in my internal DVD-ROM in my Mini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazkid Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Does your burner support DLDVDS? Many don't. Just because it can read them doesn't mean it can write them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seclusion Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Mine too, I burned the 9a499 no problems. 9a527 didn't on my Sony DL burner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guilliamo Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 This is strange. My Lite-On DVD burner has no problem with Single Layer DVDs, but it wont burn the leopard_client_9a527.dmg image to a dual layer disc I bought just for the occasion. I have no other reasons to burn dual layer DVD's, so i cant really test if its the specific image or not.BTW, I have also tried converting the dmg to a cdr and burning with nero in windows and I get a similar bug. Maybe its my drive? The disc actually never gets touched, because every time I pop it back in it shows up as blank, even in my internal DVD-ROM in my Mini.Just to second hazkid's comment. It sounds like your drive is not capable of burning your particular DL discs OR if it is capable, that fact is not being recognized.Do you perhaps have a -R DL blank and a +R DL capable drive ?See . Note that System Profiler in OSX explicitly shows "+R DL" as a DVD-Write capability for my Pioneer DVR-212D. G This is strange. My Lite-On DVD burner has no problem with Single Layer DVDs, but it wont burn the leopard_client_9a527.dmg image to a dual layer disc I bought just for the occasion. I have no other reasons to burn dual layer DVD's, so i cant really test if its the specific image or not.BTW, I have also tried converting the dmg to a cdr and burning with nero in windows and I get a similar bug. Maybe its my drive? The disc actually never gets touched, because every time I pop it back in it shows up as blank, even in my internal DVD-ROM in my Mini.Another thought: Take a look at the comments on the site where you got your Leopard dmg file. From my quick search is appears that some images are fake or flawed.G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 Still having issues. i found a firmware update for it from liteons website and it still has the problem. As for what it can do, it says its capable of everything I need. Heres screenshots from system profiler: No Disc in Drive: Heres with the blank DVD+R DL: any ideas? Ive even tried switching around ports and all the usual restarts and everything. edit: and no, its not a flawed dvd image. I installed leopard temporarily on my ipod using my ipod with a few partitions. edit2: Disk utility gives me an issue with the device not being accessed properly, ill try to get a screenshot of the error. ok heres what diskutility gives me upon burning it: Starts off fine: stil okay: then, wtf why are u done so fast: and it finishes off with this: im... stumped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seclusion Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Hmm, I ended up just partitioning my Leo drive and copying the DMG to the smaller partition. Running from 527 now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 Hmm, I ended up just partitioning my Leo drive and copying the DMG to the smaller partition.Running from 527 now well duh i can do that, but i prefer having optical media copies of my operating systems on hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seclusion Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Sorry, I wasn't trying to get you to do that, I just wanted to get Leo running. I have the DMG copied to a DL DVD but when I restarted it just kept booting into Tiger. She's running nice over here, hope you can get it running soon. Later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 bump From any of those screenshots, does anyone see anything maybe I'm doing wrong or that I need to do? I did use patchburn a long time ago to make that drive compatable with itunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Maybe related to USB... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 Maybe related to USB... i thought so too so i switched aroubnd my plugs a bunch of times and removed as much stuff as i could and still, no go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Try and get a diskutility off one of the old isntall disks (10.4.7) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 Its not app related either. Toast has the same problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
com3 Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 my question is. how did u get a hold of leopard?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 my question is. how did u get a hold of leopard?! ahahahahhhhhaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayanami Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 I've been hearing that a some of the copies of Leo that are, um, floating around, (like the one slowly floating through Xtorrent on my MBP =D ), not perfect. That might be the case with yours? Maybe it's just off enough to not like your DVD drive or whatever... Try this... You said you put it on your iPod on a partition, right? Try making a clean DMG from that partition. I know, it seems pretty stupid to unpack a file and then re-pack it, but that sort of thing has worked for me with other types of compressed files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.J. Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 The burn worked perfectly for me with my Lite-on drive in Toast 8! However when I have a macbook with only a combo drive, so I used an external hard drive attachment in order to connect the drive through firewire to burn...the only thing that was weird during installation was that all my settings and files were saved and not overwritten...it was odd...leopard basically just wiped out the old tiger features and replaced them, keeping all other files intact..*shrugs* must be a bug...but with one like that I'm not complaining! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquidCombo Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 When I burned mine, the verification part after the burning failed. However the OS installed just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splintar Junior Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Hey, Sorry, don't know if I'm stealing your topic or not. This is sort of related... Simple question, how do I burn a bootable .dmg in windows (such as Leopard). How do I convert or do I even need to convert it to an .iso or other such file. Completely new to this, sorry. I did do a search but this site doesn't let me put in a keyword such as ".dmg" which made it impossible for me to search for what I needed. This question has probably been asked heaps of times but I'm either retarded or blind becuase I can't find it. Any ideas? And to be fair to the OP, what speed are you burning your disc at? Also check compatibility of the drive (as others have mentioned) and make sure you check the image you have. Maybe find a different source to acquire a different copy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 I assure you the copy of leopard is legit, it installed using my ipod, and my drive is very compatable with DL-DVDs. The speed is also at 2x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezwits Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I have done some burning in my time and seen some errors here and there but that one looks pretty nasty... (don't want to put a damper on things but) something is wrong somewhere maybe with the burner or the media, or the image because you said you tried on windows. So something looks bad. Sucks that the only thing to do with computer problems like this is process of elimination. Different DVDs, different burner if you can find a friend or something. And thats about it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xosx86 Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Many times it the blank media I have a DVD DL in my Sony Vaio notebook. And I had a hell of a time with some {censored} TDK DVD-R DL disks. The drive would not work with them. Took the open package back to best buy and swaped them out for Sony DVD-R DL. Worked perfect I bought the TDK because they where a better deal {by $8}. The sony are by far the best disks I have ever used {DL, cd or dvd}. I wont use anything else again. Going to try the 9a527 patches this weekend to get 9a527 on my vaio wish me luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbogdan Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 do I burn a bootable .dmg in windows http://www.magiciso.com/ never tried it (dmg is built in os for me), but a quick google session revealed this... (however, you must know that you cannot yet install leopard on a pc. get the tiger builds instead) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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