Copy / Access Mac OSX Partition from the Install DVD in Linux
Tags hfsplus, kpartx, leopard, multipath-tools, osx
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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