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Copy / Access Mac OSX Partition from the Install DVD in Linux

Posted 12-17-2009 at 07:31 AM by robinherbots
Updated 04-24-2013 at 07:19 AM by robinherbots

If you insert the Mac OSX (Leopard) Install DVD; the only thing you see is the WindowsSupport part of the DVD. If you want to access the OSX Install content of the DVD you need some extra tools.
  • download & install multipath-tools
    (http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/)
    In a terminal as root
    • tar -xjf multipath-tools-0.4.8.tar.bz2
    • cd multipath-tools-0.4.8
    • make && make install
  • Map the dvd to a loop-device
    losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/sr0 (/dev/sr0 = dvd device)
  • kpartx -l /dev/loop0
    to view the different sessions on the DVD
  • kpartx -i /dev/loop0
    to actually map the sessions
  • file -s /dev/mapper/loop0p3
    gives some info about the session
    /dev/mapper/loop0p3: Macintosh HFS Extended version 4 data last mounted by: '10.0', ...
  • To create an iso
    dd if=/dev/mapper/loop0p3 of=./Leopard_osx.iso
  • To mount
    mount /dev/mapper/loop0p3 /mnt/osx (or to whatever)
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