That doesn't break it into two pieces. A single external volume of 
sufficient size could hold your 6GB image. Disk utility can clone your 
DMG to another device (USB thumb drive, hard drive or whatever). You 
just can't use a DMG that's been cut into two separate volumes.

CB

ben mustill-rose wrote:
> Would something like
> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1233627
> be possible?
>
> On 26/08/2009, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
>   
>> If this is an installer, I don't think you can split it. DMG files get
>> mounted up as disk drives and so the installer can and will seek for
>> files all over the virtual disk. There is no requirement that they pull
>> in all the files from one and then move to the rest. There are lots of
>> ways to split a file in pieces, but you'll have to combine them together
>> before you can use it. If they are just data files then there is no need
>> for the DMG. Beyond that you would need to have intimate knowledge of
>> which files are needed when and make a custom installer, probably beyond
>> the scope of work you wanted to tackle.
>>
>> CB
>>
>> hank smith wrote:
>>     
>>> hello I have a 6 gig dmg
>>> this is a bootable disk
>>> need to split this in to 2 dvds have it ask me to hit enter when
>>> second disk is inserted
>>> what program will do this?
>>>
>>> Hank
>>>
>>>       
>
>
>   

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