Mounting apple .dmg files in fedora

[James McKenzie]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Yes, they appear to be compressed but I think you're mistaken on the
> file system. Googling HPFS and Apple seemed to indicate the HPFS was
> more of an OS/2 format and that HFS+ was the current file system.
>
Thank you for the correction on the file system type.

> I think the problem is that the image is compressed. One site
> recommended using "file" to see if it was helpful, i.e.:
>
> file <image>.dmg

Interesting.  Might prove useful for troubleshooting corrupt .dmg files.

James McKenzie