thanks mdsbrain, and thank you for all of the info

 

any idea how to do this on a mac using toast?

windrider

 

"An ISO image is the exact same thing as a Toast image."
See Post 21 above.

-Ed

 

yes, i know this sounds crazy but i downloaded the iso image, burned it with toast which gave me a folder with a number of files in it...burned those files onto a cd...put it in my nav system (04 dvd version)...but nothing...even after 10 minutes...what could i be doing wrong?

windrider

 

Can't wait to try it out!

 

You should tell Toast to "Burn image". Then point it to the iso file. Once its done burning that file pop that CD into your car.

 

Some people have found their Nav to be finicky about reading burned CDs. Try again with a different brand media and/or CD-writer.

 

thanks guys...i'll give this a try...gotta go buy some new disks...now in toast, do i select hybrid, mac and pc, or iso for the burn format?

windrider

 

ISO... but I would think that by pointing to the ISO file, that you wouldn't have to make that selection. Then again, I've never used Toast!

The key here is that you do NOT want to go through the steps of creating a custom burn image. If you have to deal with the individual files, then you're probably not doing it right. You should be able to choose an option such as "burn from image file", choose the file, and it will go straight to the burn process.

 

Give me a few days and I will do the hack. Will someone host?

Drop me a PM.

 

Thanks - I tried to burn a CD using Alcohol 120, but while it LOOKED like it worked (the CD looks burned) the computer thinks the disc is blank.

 

Does this step by step instruction help?
http://mini.mdsbrain.com/?p=127


The image files have been rar’d (compressed), so you will first need to un-rar them. I use a program called WinRAR.
- Once you have uncompressed the image files you will need to burn them to a CD-R using a program called Alcohol 120%, which is available as a free 30 day trial here - http://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/download_120.php
- Burn the disk using a high quality CD-R disk at the lowest possible burning speed using these steps:- Once the disk is ready, follow these stepsTo activate the Perspective view mode with V27 you need to do the following (thanks to 2Wires for this info):

1. Go to the main menu and then settings. Press the menu button for about 10 seconds until a new menu appears.
2. Check “Perspective”. Voilá. Perspective mode is now available.

 

Good step by step (sounds familiar), but I meant MY computer (two different ones) show the CD as blank. Might have been a bad disc.

 

Worked great! I always worry about screwing up the Nav doing an update because of the $ involved if it bombs.

 

thanks everyone for your assistance and advice...here is what I discovered about toast...first...whenn you all were telling me to burn the iso image and toast will do the rest...well that is pretty much true IF I had known to use the "copy" tab instead of the "data" tab...I wasted like 5 disks burning data when i needed to use the other tab in toast...once the "copy" tab is selected, you can then navigate to the iso image, burn it and all is beautiful and right with the world...thanks again everyone...got the update and all seems to be working perfectly...

take care...

windrider

 

"Houston, we have a problem..."

The underlying issue here was that none of us had used Toast, and weren't aware of a "copy tab" or "data tab".

I just knew that you had to tell Toast to burn the disc directly from the image file. Image files are just virtual copies of the discs themselves. They are the easiest way to ensure the resulting new disc is exactly the same as the disc that the image was created from... copy protected discs notwithstanding.

FYI - although the Nav OS update discs are not copy protected (why would they be?), the map discs ARE copy protected... have to protect that $199 a pop business!

The nice thing about all of this? Now that you figured it out, the next time that a Mac user asks about using Toast, we'll know what to say! "Use the copy tab, not the data tab!"

 

now on to a more vexing issue...has anyone replaced the splash "mini wings" when the nav starts up with their own image?

windrider

 

Yes its not difficult but I don't have mine done to minimize and possibly problems with service on the Nav unit.

Check out X5world for info on this. There are several folks who have this down to a science.

 

Really??? The app released on X5world a few months back that's used to swap the boot image did not work for the Mini boot image. I was able to successfully change the BMW image for my 330 NAV, but the Mini image would get corrupted. Has there been a new or updated program released for inserting a boot graphic into the boot file?

 

will this work on my 03 mini nav?

 

It will if your Nav unit uses DVDs for map Discs and not CDs.

 

im almost positive it used DVD's because i found the disk and it says "mini navigation dvd" on the sleave

 

Sounds like you have the DVD. See if this document helps from X5World.

 

ok yeah thats it, thanx :D

 

MDSBrain,
Thank you very much for the posts. You helped me on the 26 version. I have no computer skills at my age, but today I proudly followed your instructions, downloaded the extractor and the 120% and made my copy at 4X. All worked, installed it in the car, got the perspective choice, and chose yes.

Setting in my garage , it appears the same as always.

Also, My map DVD is 2003-2

Dows anyone have a 2006 DVD that I could purchase at a discount?

Thanks again, I will check it out of tha garage.