This template needs to be created to clean up and organize the bottom parts of texts that refer to disk images for PC's etc...

Hopefully in about a week the pages will be more readable and organized.

Content

Please refer to the Disk image article for adding formats. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 09:20, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Categories

Is this to be organized by Media (CDROM/DVD, hard disk, floppy disk) or by Platform? Someone needs to make that distinction early. I vote for media. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 09:20, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Macintosh discussion points

In the 'Disk image file formats' section towards the bottom of the page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image>, I believe the following correction, and an addition, could be included.

1) the title 'MAC/UNIX' is a perenial mistake. A Macintosh is a 'Mac'; a hardware address of a device connected to a network is a 'MAC' (Media Access Control.)

2) It has been profoundly confusing to this ancient Mac-er that I could not work out how to produce an .iso image. Thanks to this article and it's contributors I see for the first time that Apple use the naming convention .cdr for this standard.

As I have never been able to discover the following anywhere, perhaps it would help other equally confused Mac users if appended to, or referred to by, this how-to, developed by myself after extensive false starts?

" To burn an .iso image using a Macintosh's supplied (in OS X) Disk Utility application . .

 Open Disk Utility.
 Insert or locate the CD/DVD/disk image you wish to convert to an .iso image (Mac postscript .cdr).
 Select it in the top left window.
 From the top bar, at left, click on 'New Image'.
 Name the new image, and select where to save it (It's probably big, remember.)
 From the Image Format drop-down menu at the bottom of the screen, select DVD/CD Master.
 (Encryption is optional, for you to decide.)
 Click on Save.
 This now burns a .cdr image, which is the Mac postscript for an .iso image.
 (The other three format options burn .dmg files.)

"

Cheers

Jen —Preceding unsigned comment added by JenSee (talk • contribs) 02:20, 10 September 2008 (UTC)