Re: Mounting apple .dmg files in fedora

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On 05/05/11 17:31, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:08 PM, 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.
> Wikipedia has some good info:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image
>
> It suggests the command line:
> mount -o loop,ro -t hfsplus imagefile.dmg /mnt/mountpoint
>
> Not sure if the ro will make a difference ... you might have to
> install some other hfs utilities to make that work. I know that there
> seem to be two mutually incompatible took sets for hfs in the
> repositories.
>
> There are also some other conversion utilities mentioned there.
>
> While dmg files are disk images, it almost seems that File Roller
> should be the right tool.
>
> /Mike
Firgetaboudit!
It does not work.
You must convert it to iso first.
See dmg2iso package.

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