.SIT to .DMG
Posted May 25th, 2003 @ 01:01pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Today I unstuffed (several hundred megabytes) of data from .sit and .sitx archives and rearchived them as .dmg archives. StuffIt Deluxe offers one nice feature that Disk Copy doesn't: the ability to extract a single file without expanding the whole archive (similar to "mounting" the whole DMG). I won't always have StuffIt Deluxe and sometimes I'm not even sure why I have it now. Most of the time. And that percentage is rising.
The time for DropStuff/Deluxe has passed. I find myself using .tgz on the command line for files I know to be safe (i.e. those without resource forks). StuffIt Expander will continue to be useful for at least a little while, but for now, .dmg is the way I intend to go.
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Posted 27 May 2003 at 11:42pm #
Why .DMG is Good
NSLog makes mention of re-archiving .sit files as .dmg files, something I've been doing since before I moved to OS X, using .img on OS 9.
He makes mention of not ha...
Posted 28 May 2003 at 2:03am #
alias tgz 'tar -czf'
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Posted 28 May 2003 at 4:06am #
Yes, DMG compresses a bit less than StuffIt, but it's really much faster to compress and expand. In fact, I'm not sure if the smaller size of StuffIt archives, and thus the shorter download time, justify the tremendously longer expansion.
Posted 28 May 2003 at 5:14am #
2003/05/28 10:11
NSLog on archiving
Posted 28 May 2003 at 7:55am #
I seriously dislike most dmg files. All but the newest and fanciest ones will mount on my desktop as a drive, forcing me to (a) copy whatever I want to keep of their contents elsewhere (b) unmount the mounted and (c) get rid of the disk image files.
Compare this to getting a Stuffit or tgz archive and running it through Stuffit, you'll only need step (a).
This makes mounting disk images very undesirable in my eyes. I never saw the point of them.
Posted 28 May 2003 at 9:27am #
Sven, you're missing the point. I don't want to get rid of them - they're for archival purposes. Why would I want the archive to go away?
Posted 28 May 2003 at 5:10pm #
Re: Pros and Cons of .dmg
I still use DropStuff (part of Stuffit Lite) for temporarily archiving installed applications or data files, but I agree with Erik that .dmg is the best way for archiving things. Regarding software distribution, my experience is that most users also wa...
Posted 28 Sep 2003 at 1:08am #
hey okay.. i know this may sound stupid, but im a newb at this. i want to know how to open a dmg file on mac os 9x so that i can run the mac os X (10) which has the ending file name of .dmg .... is there a certain program i shoould use to open this or is there a simple way.. can someone please help me id really appreciate it.. alright
bye, and thanks to anyone that will help me!:)
Posted 28 Sep 2003 at 9:48am #
Laszlo: there's a beta of Disk Copy for Mac OS 9 floating around the web (mostly on warez servers), which is able to do that. It's version 5.6b11 or something like that.
Posted 10 Feb 2004 at 8:55pm #
I have xp home edition and I don't know how to use disk copy or how to mount it or what. Can you help me in dummie terms?
Posted 11 Feb 2004 at 1:14am #
Leonard: There's no way to open a dmg file on Windows (other than using a Mac emulator), you need a Mac for that.
Posted 03 Mar 2004 at 9:38am #
Hi guys. I'm don't know how to launch a dmg file from limewire. Does anyone know the answer
Posted 09 Mar 2004 at 3:37am #
i want to know how to open *.dmg files i have downloaded some file and this is in *.dmg format and i would like to know how to open this files.
Posted 10 Mar 2004 at 7:19pm #
hello can anyone tell me how i can retrieve data from a dmg file format in windows xp.
i saw someone write its impossible. but he also mention we need emulator or some software... but i have no idea what is emulator and where can i get this emulator and then how i can retrieve data using emulator.
please help me guys?
Joy
Posted 17 May 2004 at 9:08pm #
need to see if some know how to mount a dmg file that says no mountable files systems.????
Posted 28 May 2004 at 2:10pm #
I was searching the 'Net to see if there was a way to open up a .dmg image file on a Windows machine and came upon this website.
I've come across a solution that I thought I'd share with you as this page came up when doing a Google search for "+windows +.dmg" (not in quotes, of course).
I was informed that Nero could Burn a .dmg file if you forced it to.
And then I got to thinking...
"If Nero could burn it, why shouldn't Daemon Tools recognise it?"
Guess what - It does!
You can mount the .dmg file to a virtual drive using Daemon Tools and then extract the files that way - or just use the virtual drive to access the files. All you have to do is choose "All Files (*.*)" from the "Files of type:" dropdown and then select the .dmg file to mount.
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/index.php
And they said it couldn't be done!
Posted 06 Sep 2004 at 7:38pm #
how do i open an dmg file?
Posted 08 Sep 2004 at 2:53am #
Hi all,
Having the same problem - reading then burning a .dmg image on an XP Pro system. This can be done pretty easily now with the newest (beta) version of ISOBuster - 1.6.0.24
Open the .dmg file in ISOBuster, right click on the top line "CD" in the left pane, choose "Extract CD ", then choose "RAW (*.bin, *.iso)".
You are then prompted for a "Save As" name. Be sure to type in the name of your choice and ADD ".bin" to the end of the name (no quotes of course).
Processing will begin immediately and when it is complete you are prompted to save a ".cue" file as the same name. This is optional but helpful.
I then used Alcohol 120% to burn the image to a CD-R on my XP Pro system.
Posted 09 Mar 2005 at 8:50am #
Hello everyone. I am new at this at want to know if I need to install OS X before I install os X.3... If so, where could I get OS X. Any help would be great. Thanks
Posted 24 Jun 2005 at 8:13pm #
open DMG files in Windows using the command line:
http://filext.com/info/showthread.php?t=160
Posted 06 Aug 2005 at 12:25am #
Daemon tools won't open a compressed dmg file, unfortunately... even simple ISOBuster won't do it (I think - speaking from experience) - ISOBuster Pro is need to decompress the data...
...still hunting for an easy way to do this...
Posted 16 Sep 2005 at 1:06pm #
Ultra ISO did it for me, thanks to those who pointed me in to the right direction, hope this helps someone else.
Posted 21 Sep 2005 at 11:51pm #
I'm currently on XP. I have a dmg file in my C:/ drive now. I wish to burn it onto a cd. What and how should i go about doing it. and what software do i neeD? i intend to intall the dmg file into my ibook. i just need a medium for it. Thanks!
Posted 30 Sep 2005 at 8:56am #
Daemon tools won't open a compressed dmg file, unfortunately... even simple ISOBuster won't do it (I think - speaking from experience) - ISOBuster Pro is need to decompress the data...
Nope. ISOBuster Pro doesn't work either. It can extracting the data but that is futile seeing as it'll still be compressed and thus unreadable. Even converting to a ISO/BIN file won't work. Sure doing so enable you to burn the image to a CD but Windows or OS 9 still won't recognise it. You can mount compressed DMG images with Daemon tools but again Windows won't recognise what's been mounted and just chucks out an error.
Basically there's currently absdolutely no way to decompress a compressed DMG on Windows. The same goes for Mac OS 9.
Posted 04 Feb 2006 at 12:16am #
i have a file that is a game and unfortunately its a DMG.File and when i try to open it it won't reconize any programs to run it through.. so is there any program(s) that i could open the file with???
Posted 29 Mar 2006 at 4:21am #
I have the same problem on my mac Powerbook G4 OS 10.2.8
This has only started recently. Before dmg files opened without a problem.
.dmg files won' mount
error message: no mountable file systems
Who can help?
Posted 07 Jul 2006 at 6:29am #
There isn't no way to decompress .dmg archives bescause you are stupid in the first place and you download it
Posted 28 Jul 2006 at 7:25am #
You may expand .dmg under Windows with utility, named "UFS Explorer" (www.ufsexplorer.com).
Looks like it supports both compressed .dmg and HFS there...
Posted 27 Jun 2007 at 5:05pm #
Does anybody know how to transfer a .dmg file that is 6gb from windows xp. I have a . dmg file and i want to transfer. But i keep getting a msg that say desitnation drive full and it is a far from full it 30gb drive and only has 1 gb of files on it. Are there any compression tools I could use to transfer it so that I able to transfer on to my portable drive. I was also wonder if it is at all possible to install LEOPARD OS on a Vitual Machine that is on a windows xp based system?
Posted 04 Sep 2007 at 7:12am #
hi, i just got my mac book a few days ago. and i have convert my sitx. file into dmg. file but i still cant open it in my window. how can i open it?