Burn troubles

[thesinx]

I created a lovely unbootable coaster by converting the DMG to ISO and patching (using the maxxuss patch) on my PC and then burning to DVD on my mac (only computer I have with a DVD burner). A quick search on the forum turned up nothing. Anyone else tried burning 8f1099 on a mac?

[jfn]

I did... and it worked fine for me. I converted the dmg to iso, patched it, and burned it all on a dual-G5 mac. I used an 8x Imation DVD-R.

 

I tried many times to upgrade my 10.4.1 installation, but it hung or crashed each time. Eventually I did an "Erase and Install" and it worked perfectly. By the way, my CD-RW/DVD drive in my laptop made lots of bad noises and never got past the gray screen trying to read the DVD. But, I borrowed the same model drive from my friend's identical laptop, and that worked.

[Phineas J. Whoopie]

I created a lovely unbootable coaster by converting the DMG to ISO and patching (using the maxxuss patch) on my PC and then burning to DVD on my mac (only computer I have with a DVD burner). A quick search on the forum turned up nothing. Anyone else tried burning 8f1099 on a mac?

 

It worked for me as well. Be sure the MD5 checksums are correct. The patch does a binary edit of the ISO. If the ISO is not EXACTLY the same as what Maxxuss created the patch for, you will end up with a coaster. I used hdiutil to convert the .dmg file to .iso and checked MD5's of both. Then applied the patch and checked MD5's again. If everything matched, it should work. You can find the MD5's on Maxxuss' web site. I used the disk util app to burn the iso to the DVD-RW.

 

-Phineas