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Creating a Disk Image

The Disk Utility application (/Applications/Utilities) allows you to create a disk image from a folder, as described in the following steps.

1. Create a directory named after your product, containing the product’s files, such as the Atom 1.0.0 directory shown in Figure 2-2.

   
   

   Figure 2-2  A product directory in a Finder window

   

2. In Disk Utility, use the New Image from Folder command to create a disk image of the product directory.

   To produce the smallest disk-image file possible, use the compressed disk-image format.

Figure 2-3 shows how a user may see the contents of the disk image after opening it in the Finder.

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