burning a cd for mac with windows

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Hello everyone ,
i'm new here and I need help of experts .
I wanna burn on a cd rom some NRG files (1.87GB) , i need to do a bootable cd for my macintosh ibook.
the problem is this : I'm gonna burn the cd with " Nero burning rom" with another laptop that uses windows xp (because my ibook doesn't have a cd burner , is an old Ibook g3 clamshell) and I don't know if it is possible to create a cd for Mac using windows . if yes , how do I do it ?
Do I need to convert the nrg files in some other extension so mac os X can read it or I just need to burn the files the way they are on the blank cd ?
Please help , i'm desperate ..

Thanks in adavance everyone and I apologize if I posted in the wrong section .
 
Are you sure you want a bootable CD or do you want a mountable aka readable CD? So long as you don't use some godawful proprietary format, MacOS X should have no trouble reading a CD produced on a Windows machine. Just make sure that you finalize the disk.

If you want to use your Windows computer to burn a CD that will boot your Mac, then you first have to have a copy of MacOS X on your Windows computer. I really don't think this is what you want. If it is, then please be clear about it.
 
MisterMe said:
Are you sure you want a bootable CD or do you want a mountable aka readable CD? So long as you don't use some godawful proprietary format, MacOS X should have no trouble reading a CD produced on a Windows machine. Just make sure that you finalize the disk.

If you want to use your Windows computer to burn a CD that will boot your Mac, then you first have to have a copy of MacOS X on your Windows computer. I really don't think this is what you want. If it is, then please be clear about it.
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Hello Mr Me , thanks for your reply .
You're right man , what i want is a" mountable aka readable CD" , sorry if I didn't express myself clearly.
Now my question is ...to do that , should I convert the files nrg. to ISO ? if yes, what is the best program ? I got "magicIso" , "ultraiso" and Nero 7. Are these programs good enough to get the job done ? I'm very stupid in this field but how do I finalize a disk ?
thanks a lot , I appreciate your help.
 
You shouldn't have to convert the files to a .iso before you burn the cd.
I've used Nero 6 to create cd's for a friend who has an apple mac and have had no problems at all with doing it.
Probably best to finalize the cd. Haven't used magicIso or ultraiso before but I know in Nero there is a check box to tick when creating the cd.
Hope that helps.

Good luck ;)

Cheers,

Rich
 
i'm confused now ....should i convert the files to Iso or not ?
Thanks for your reply Rich , it surely helps :) ..but some people told me to convert them and some people not ...I'm confused , what is the best way ?
since is a big file (1.87GB) I don't want to waste cds because I didn't do the right thing ...
 
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