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*.dmg is a disk image file format widely used on Macintoshes for software distribution.

*.dmg is a disk image file format widely used on Apple Macintosh computers for software distribution. Questions about the creation, distribution, use and maintenance/repair of these files should be tagged with this. dmg files may be of any size and supersede previous file formats such as *.img, which were specifically images of floppy disks. For more information, see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image

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Create a bootable USB drive from a DMG file on Windows

A Mac machine needs to be reformatted with Lion. I backed up the Lion dmg file when I purchased it via the Mac App Store. I now need to create a bootable USB drive from the DMG file but I need to be able to do it in Windows, preferring open source…
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Can Linux mount a normal Time Machine sparse bundle disk image directory?

I am looking to see if Linux can mount and read the files natively stored on a Time Capsule over a network share. Like this question, I am looking for something that replicates at least read-only function of hdiutil to attach and then mount a sparse…
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How to extract a .dmg file in Linux?

As a Linux user, I need to get the content of a .dmg (Mac OSX disk image) file which contains an application installer. I tried dmg2dir (which requires dmg2img) which created an .img file but nothing else. $ sudo dmg2dir jdk-8u51-macosx-x64.dmg ==>…
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I'm unable to mount a DMG, getting a "no mountable filesystems" error

I downloaded a DMG of some commercial Mac software (CSSEdit) but I found that the DMG wouldn't mount. I tried another image from the same company, and then a number of images I had laying around from other software. About half of them mount and…
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Bypass a licence agreement when mounting a DMG on the command line

I'm automating my Mac installation using puppet. As a part of it I need to install several programs that come in a .dmg format. I use the following to mount them: sudo /usr/bin/hdiutil mount -plist -nobrowse -readonly -quiet -mountrandom /tmp…
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Why is Adobe Flash Player downloaded as a ".dmg.mdlp" file?

When I download the current Adobe flash player installer from the Adobe website using Safari 6.0.1 under OSX 10.8.2, I end up with a file named 'install_flash_player_osx.dmg.mdlp' in my downloads folder. I am curious as to why the .mdlp extension…
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What is the difference between ISO and DMG images?

What is the difference between .iso files and .dmg files? Why are they used differently?
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How to convert or burn a .DMG image file on Windows?

What software can be recommended to burn a Mac created .DMG file on a Windows operating system? Ideally it should be free, or at least reasonably priced. Or, as an alternative, an application convert it to .ISO or something equivalent? I'm looking…
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How to mount a dmg file in Windows?

I need to mount a .dmg file on windows 7. These are the disk image container files as are commonly used with Apple's OSX. What applications/utilities will do this? I know Daemon tools won't.
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Mount Mac disk image (and sparse bundle) on Windows or Linux

Is it possible to mount the various disk image formats that Mac OS uses on other platforms? I suppose one problem would be that the file system in that image is usually HFS+. I am specifically interested in creating (AES) encrypted sparse bundles,…
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Mac disk images: any real difference between 'master' and 'compressed'?

When creating a disk image (.cdr or .dmg) from a physical CD or DVD on Mac (using Disk Utility > New Image) one can choose between 'CD\DVD Master‘ and 'compressed'. Apart from the obvious fact that a compressed image will be smaller, are there other…
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How to burn rEfit .cdr or .dmg in Ubuntu or Windows?

I don't have Mac OS X installed on my MacBook Pro, but I have Ubuntu and Windows. I was following this website's instructions to boot faster into Ubuntu without a 30 second delay. However I can't even burn a rEfit CDR image. Do you know how to burn…
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Can't mount dmg image as read/write

Hello I've downloaded a bootable .iso image that I'd like to write to an USB stick under OSX (10.6). I've converted the image with the command hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ./X15-65804.img ./X15-65804.iso The problem is that I need to remove a…
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Windows tools to open encrypted DMG files?

Does anyone know of a tool that will supports encrypted .dmg (OSX disk image) files under Windows?
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How to prevent HDIUTIL from opening a finder window when mounting a dmg?

When I mount a DMG image with hdiutil -noautoopen and try to suppress the finder window with any and all command line arguments to HDIUTIL it still open's a Finder window. There must be a way to prevent this... am I wrong?
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