On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, JD <jd1...@gmail.com> 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. 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 I also found references to a few programs that can convert a dmg to something easer to use. Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
