dmg file
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Oct 7 21:33:24 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 14:25 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 15:18 -0600, C.F. Scheidecker Antunes wrote:
> > Hello all:
> >
> > I have a Mac file with the extension DMG. How can I extract its contents
> > with Fedora Linux?
>
> Simple answer: mount it using HFS and using the loop device:
>
> mount -t hfs -o loop myImage.dmg /some/mount/point
>
> ".dmg" means "disk image". The Mac uses HFS and a .dmg is essentially:
>
> dd if=/somedir of=file.dmg
>
> where "/somedir" is the mountpoint of a partition formatted with HFS.
Oops! I meant "/somedir" is the raw partition name of a partition
formatted with HFS, e.g.
dd if=/dev/sda3 of=file.dmg
if "/dev/sda3" was the HFS partition. Sorry about that.
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