Re: hdiutil create fails to work on MacOS X 10.3.5

FROM : Håkan Johansson
DATE : Fri Oct 15 17:01:14 2004

On Oct 6, 2004, at 02:46, Hall, Warwick D wrote:

> Cocoa developers,
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> I recently bought a booked called “MacOS X Unleashed” and it explains 
> a section on how to run the disk image (.dmg) command line utility 
> called hdiutil. I believe the book was written in Jaguar days, so 
> maybe out of date.
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> Basically when I call
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> prompt $ hdiutil create [some options like –sectors] funkymonkey
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> … the result is “Failed- error 704”.
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> When I run with the –debug and –verbose options a lot of stuff is spat 
> out which seems to suggest that the hdiutil program is having trouble 
> (read: cannot) loading the DiskImage framework (and it seems to 
> attempt this more than once). I find the DiskImage.framework in my 
> /System/Library/PrivateFramework directory.
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> What gives?
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> Regards,
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> Warwick Hall
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> PS How do you search the mailing list archives for keywords? 
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/index.html does not seem to 
> have a keyword search ability…
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I am not sure this is your problem, but you have to give size or source 
dir info.
For example, this one works perfectly for me (Creates a 8MB HFS+ 
Read/Write dmg):
hdiutil create -size 8m -fs HFS+ -ov some.dmg

If you have a catalogue named "MyDmg" and want to create a compressed, 
read only
dmg from it (works only on 10.3 and later):
hdiutil create -srcdir MyDmg -fs HFS+ -ov my.dmg


PS. Searching the list archives are done at http://www.cocoabuilder.com/

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