mounting a mac drive image in linux

slinky2004 · 02-07-2006, 12:35 PM

i've installed pearpc and basically i have osx installed on a 3gb hard drive image and i use pearpc and the drive image to emulate osx on my linux computer. i want to be able to mount the osx drive image so i can put some files on it, etc. i also have a macintosh .dmg file that i need to mount and get some files off of. i've been following the instructions on this site:http://baghira.sourceforge.net/dmg.htm, but i haven't had any luck. I modprobe my "hfs" and "hfsplus" modules, since i don't have them compiled in, then try to mount the disk image: "mount -t hfs -o loop /home/slinky/pearpc/osx.img /mnt/machd" and i get an error saying it's the wrong filetype. the same thing happens when i try to mount the dmg file, i try to mount it the same way and it gives me the same error about it being the wrong filetype. that site says to run the file command first to make sure its a ture hfs filesystem. the osx drive image says this:

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Apple Partition data block size: 512, first type: Apple_partition_map, name Apple, Number of blocks: 63, second type: Apple_Free, name: , number of blcoks: 0, third type: Apple_Free, name: , number of free blocks: 0,

and the .dmg file just says

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asdf.dmg: data

which is wierd because i'm sure it's a real dmg file, i've mounted it on my ibook several times.

tomdkat · 04-25-2006, 10:30 PM

Do you get any messages when you use modprobe to load the HFS modules?

Peace...

flouran · 08-06-2008, 04:38 PM

Although you cannot install a *.dmg file in Linux, you can mount it (and unmount it). I actually solved the problem by creating a nautilus script of my own that enables any distribution of Linux to mount a Mac OS X .dmg file (but not install it, since that would require the Mac OS X APIs, which are closed source). Feel free to download it by clicking this link: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Deskt...er-39815.shtml. See the installation notes in the README file in the folder labeled, DOCUMENTATION, which comes with the tar.gz package, for complete install instructions (and I believe that these install instructions are also on the website). Remember, it is under the GNU Public License. The installation notes are absolutely critical for this software to work!

Please reply to this post with your comments and how my software worked (or did not work) for you. Your feedback is greatly appreciated to the improvement of this software!