Making legacy install media on current mac's

[rosecar]

Hey gang, recently I got a good deal on a titanium PowerBook G4 as my first retro Mac.

I've tried googling and can't quite find a simple answer for this-- how do I burn/make install media for old Macs these days? the PowerBook doesn't have an operating system (old owner pulled the old hard drive) and so my options are an ARM Mac or a Windows PC. Disk Utility isn't at all what I remember it to be from back in Mountain Lion.

What do I use to get ISOs bootable?

 

[alex_free]

I've used dmg2img and then cdrecord (available for windows, Linux, and Mac) to burn the converted .img on Linux.

 

[rosecar]

also please note i would NEVER intentionally write "mac's" but autocorrect on my phone (...made by Apple, no less) did that

 

[eyoungren]

Years ago, I'd just use Toast to burn a disk image to a DVD. Not everyone has Toast of course, but shouldn't Disk Utility on a modern Mac be able to burn a disk image to a DVD?

Or is that another useful feature that Apple has quietly removed from DU?

 

[joevt]

If you have a DVD RW drive, then the Finder should have "Burn to Disc" and "New Burn Folder" commands in the File Menu.
Those might just be for data. I think you would use Disk Utility to make install media but haven't tried it.
Usually I would restore the install media to a small partition of a hard drive (internal or FireWire or maybe USB). It's faster than a DVD.