Jan 15, '03 09:31:12AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
Internet-enabled disk images are identical to regular disk images except they have a special flag set. You create the disk image normally and then set the internet-enabled flag with the following command:Don't forget to check out Ken's Weblog for more OS X tidbits.% hdiutil internet-enable -yes|-no|-query [pathToDMG]"Use -yes to enable the flag, -no to disable the flag, and -query to test whether the dmg file is already internet-enabled.
You can set the internet-enabled flag only for read-only disk images. Read-write disk images cannot be internet-enabled. Older IMG and SMI files also cannot be internet-enabled.
Because Disk Copy clears the internet-enabled flag after it processes a disk image, if you need to test the file before putting it online, you must make a copy of the disk image first and test the copy. You cannot retrieve a processed disk image from the Trash and then place it online, it will no longer be internet-enabled.
[Editor's note: If you haven't seen them yet, these self-processing images are pretty impressive; Safari uses one to open, mount, and install itself. Ken's weblog hasn't been updated since mid-December, probably due to the holiday and that little Macworld thing last week.]
