Burning Disc Images

After burning a disc image, I mounted CD. On the CD, I could only see the files copied, but no evidence of disc image or .dmg file. Is this normal? I expected to see .dmg file on new CD.

The diskimage file IS the CD. You make a diskimage file and burn it to the CD, or any mountable media. At that time the diskimage is transmogrified to the media itself.
I suppose you could create a diskimage file, mount it, then copy a diskimage file to the diskimage. I don't know what the point of that would be though.
I know the diskimage concept is hard to handle, and cranky to create and manage. But the idea of a virtual disk is very useful, and Apple made a good decision to adopt it.
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