From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 11:39:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34ADC1065675 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from mx0.gid.co.uk (mx0.gid.co.uk [194.32.164.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D4C8FC19 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:39:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gidgate.gid.co.uk (80-46-130-69.static.dsl.as9105.com [80.46.130.69]) by mx0.gid.co.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mANBMSi4053411; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:22:28 GMT (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.28] ([194.32.164.6]) by gidgate.gid.co.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mANBMMxi017394; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:22:22 GMT (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Message-Id: From: Bob Bishop To: Christoph Kukulies In-Reply-To: <4927E659.3010602@kukulies.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:22:21 +0000 References: <4927E659.3010602@kukulies.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:39:27 -0000 Hi, On 22 Nov 2008, at 11:00, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD 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). If you want to see what the package contains, try building dmg2img from here: http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/ Use that to extract the HFS image from the package, then examine it one of the HFS tools from ports/emulators, But as others have mentioned, you may not be able to do much with the contents. -- Bob Bishop rb@gid.co.uk