mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 04:55:40 PST 2008


On 11/22/08, Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org> wrote:
> Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD

Wrong.

> I'm wondering whether itr is possible to mount a
> .dmg file as it is used in Apple software distribution for the Mac OS. I
> would like to install an
> Apple iPhone configuration utility on my FreeBSD box
> (iPhoneConfigurationUtility.dmg). It consists of a
> web application that is supposedly capable of doing updates of Apple
> iPhones through a web service.
> (good for company wide distribution of address book information and
> other data that iPhones can hold).

Currently not always possible - depends which actual fs is stored in
.dmg file. Some time ago there was utility in development which allowed
mounting of hfs+ on FreeBSD.

There is dmg2iso (but it is not in ports ....)

-- 
Paul


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