On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
