Mounting apple .dmg files in fedora

[James McKenzie]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to mount an Apple .dmg file like so:
>
> mount -t hfs  -o loop ximg.dmg /mnt/dmg
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg
>
> Well, the blogs say this should work.
> I even tried  -t hfsplus  with the same result.
>
> Am I missing a relevant package?
>
> I have hfsplus-tools-332.14-11.fc13.i686
> installed, and F14 has no higher rev update for it,
> at least according to yum.

Apple .dmg files are compressed High Performance File System files
(hpfs), not hfs.  I don't know if Fedora can or even should mount them

James McKenzie