I have an ISO and DMG...now what?

My Mac OSX (10.8.4) had an external USB crash and it seems that ddrescue and dcfldd are the last hope, since none of the other utilities can mount the disc. After several days of researching, reading, and writing I have managed to produce ISO and DMG files from some test files on a DVD and a floppy, but they are unrecognized and fail to mount. Could someone please help me sort out my syntax problems from scratch?


To make my images I used the following:

[COLOR="rgb(65, 105, 225)"]dd bs=512 if=/Volumes/Beatles of=/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD1/foofoo.dmg conv=noerror,sync

/Users/pieper/Desktop/ddrescue-1.3/ddrescue /Volumes/Untitled/Letterfor\ Andrei.doc /untitled\ folder/untitled\ folder/fooo2.iso
mkdir imagedir
mount -t iso9660 beatles.iso imagedir/ -o loop,unhide[/COLOR]


Another (far more experienced) poster wrote:

A CD or DVD ISO image is readonly so you can't edit it. You can mount them very easily.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2662849#post2662849

mkdir imagedir
mount -t iso9660 backup.iso imagedir/ -o loop,unhide

Unfortunately, I have not been able to make this work.
mkdir imagedir
mount -t iso9660 beatles.iso imagedir/ -o loop,unhide

[Beatles.iso (is located in Macontosh HD )1 B] /Beatles.iso[/B] Right?

If anyone has a little time I would be very grateful for the help.

to mount an iso do:

mount -o loop /name/of/iso/here/plus/location.iso /destination/folder/here

This has worked for me a lot .

mount -o loop -t iso9660 iso-name destination-directory

Thanks for the help. It was a welcome relief for these blood-shot eyes to see some advice!

Unfortunately, I am still not able to mount an IMG, DMG, or ISO. Did I miss something when assembling these images?

Here are the results:

mount - loop /folder\ 1/folder \ 2/floppy.image /untitled\ folder

usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t ufs | external_type] special node
mount [-adfruvw] [-t ufs | external_type]
mount [-dfruvw] special | node
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mount -o loop /disk4.dmg /untitled\ folder/

/disk4.dmg on /folder\ 1: Block device required
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-o loop -t iso9660 /beatles.iso

-bash: -o: command not found

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mount -o loop -t iso9660 /untitled\ folder/untitled\ folder/fooo2.iso

usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t ufs | external_type] special node
mount [-adfruvw] [-t ufs | external_type]
mount [-dfruvw] special | node

From the commands you gave, the first one looks like an image of your external drive and the second one looks like you copied a file.

You plugged the external drive into a linux machine, correct? I'm wondering because you posted in a Linux forum but your mount commands response looks different. I don't know if Mac OSX or BSD even have a loopback device. What does it mean by "special"?

How was the external drive formatted? That determines the filesystem type to use. In Linux if it was a fat32 drive, as in a pen drive for example, then you would use -t vfat. However, this may be Linux specific.

On my "man mount" manpages, there are several "ufstype" options for UFS filesystems. If your mount options are similar, you should read your manpage to see if you need to use an option such as "44bsd". The problem is that there are several differences between different UFS implementations and some are undocumented. So you may need to provide further information in the "ufstype" option.

Thanks for the tip about "man mount." My terminal experience = about a week. (I am like a monkey with a hand-grenade.) I will go to the man pages and see what I can dig up.


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You plugged the external drive into a linux machine, correct? I'm wondering because you posted in a Linux forum but your mount commands response looks different. I don't know if Mac OSX or BSD even have a loopback device. What does it mean by "special"?


If I find out what they mean by special we'll both know! (Maybe they mean, "It takes a special kind of idiot to screw up a machine like you did!" )

I am using both a USB floppy and ISO/DMG images located in my / directory for testing. If and when I learn how to do this properly, I will try the code on my failing EXT HD. Perhaps posting in a Linux (instead of Mac) forum complicates things a bit, but this was the only forum that I could find with such comprehensive dd help and how to's. http://linuxquestions.cachefly.net/i...ies/newbie.gif
Any advice is appreciated!

The "file" command might help you determine what kind of files you have, and potentially what filesystem they're in so you can specify it when mounting:

file your_iso_file

Might show nothing useful, on the other hand, it might!

By a linux forum, I meant the forum on this site and not the LQ itself. There is a forum for BSD for example, and another one for non-Linux. No biggie. Since the moderator didn't relocate it, maybe there wasn't a best fit. Because the drive was external, I thought that you might have plugged it into a Linux machine.

A Special may mean the same thing as device. A device file is a special file. I haven't used BSD or OS-X so I don't know what a DMG file is. If it isn't a filesystem, then you can't mount it.

If a node is the same thing as a mount point, then your mount command is similar. Still, read through the mount man page. The filesytem types may be referred to differently.

I you are practicing mounting an image, you could still make an image of the usb drive. If you muck up the image file, you can always delete it and produce another. As long as you don't use the usb's device as the output.

I looked up DMG in Wikipedia. It is an image file, but may be compressed or encrypted. There are utilities for converting DMG files to ISOs if the DMG is an image of a CD or DVD, but it could contain other filesystems. Look at the instructions for using the command line tool "hdiutil".

jschiwal,

Thanks for the advice and help. I have tested so many scripts that I am now seeing command lines in my sleep.

For others who may also be having the same problems here is one link:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...50302225659382

I was not able to revolve my problems with the information provided there, but as mentioned I am a true newbie.

For practice I am working with a USB floppy located at:

/dev/disk1/Volumes/diskk

If I type:

dd bs=512 if=/dev/disk1 of=/zzzzz/foo.dmg conv=noerror,sync

the terminal returns that the device is busy.

If I type:
dd bs=512 if=/Volumes/diskk of=/zzzzz/foo.dmg conv=noerror,sync

the terminal begins spiting out a barrage of numbers:

dd: /Volumes/diskk: Is a directory
^C10792+0 records in
10792+0 records out
5525504 bytes transferred in 4.974113 secs (1110852 bytes/sec)

If I add the address of a document in that disk an unmountable image is produced:

dd bs=512 if=/Volumes/diskk/0000sem.rtf of=/zzzzz/foo.dmg conv=noerror,sync

If I omit .dmg or [B].iso[B] a file foo is produced

dd bs=512 if=/Volumes/diskk/0000sem.rtf of=/zzzzz/foo conv=noerror,sync

If I click on this plain /foo my document opens in word or text edit.

Could someone please explain what I am missing?
Is there a special command that selects all the files inside of a diectory?

dd bs=512 if=[select all]/Volumes/diskk/

And is there some kind of wrapper that I can place these files into so that they can be mounted?

Thanks

jschiwal,

You were right about looking in the hdiutil pages. I still do not have an image mounted, but am getting closer...

For those struggling with grub and making boot disks here is a good link:
http://heath.hrsoftworks.net/archives/000018.html

for those newbies struggling with ddrescue on a mac I can offer the following advice

1. take a couple sedatives

2. type su and hit return

3. cd and drag the ddrescue folder into the terminal and hit return

4. drag configure from the ddrescue file into the terminal -return

5. make - return

6. make install - return

7. ddrescue -v /dev/rdisk1 /yourfolder/foo.iso

rdisk1 is the location of my floppy disk to be copied (source) foo.iso

you can find the location of your floppy or other volumes by typing df

IMPORTANT addr to your disk /dev/rdisk1

locate your destination (target) by dragging the folder into the terminal

Now I am back to my original question: I have a an ISO and DMG...now what?

monitor looks like I made a typo or two:

rdisk1 is the location of my floppy disk to be copied (source) foo.iso

Can you please delete foo.iso?

thanks

As my Russian friends say УУУУУРРРРРААААААА (UUURRRAAA)! My last command produced a working DMG.

Спасибо for the help!

Нет проблема!