Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:04:43 -0500 From: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> To: R Skinner <rocky@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.org" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Opening dmg files Message-ID: <5657E46B.7010209@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <564B0B03.6060306@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <564B0B03.6060306@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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A little late to the party here, but a mac DMG is kind of like ISO except with more stuff bolted on. DMGs have native support for multiple partitions (including boot sector stuff), compression, encryption, sparse support, etc. Wikipedia has some info on the structure of the file and ways to open/mount it on Windows and *nix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image If this guy's instructions say "play it in a software dvd player" then it sounds like what he did was just naively image a DVD without understanding that the resulting file was mac proprietary. It's probably a just UDF formatted 'raw' dvd rip with a bunch of VOBs.
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