dmg file

[Rick Stevens]

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.

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