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Create OS 9 style .img disk images with OS X
Authored by: mzs on Jan 20, '09 09:17:13PM

With 10.5 it seems you do not need to create the sparse image first. This worked for me yesterday and it created foo.img:

$ hdiutil create -srcfolder foo -format ROCo -fs HFS+ -layout NONE foo

For it to open with Disk Copy 6.3.3 in OS 9 you need to make sure that the resource fork is preserved. The way that PC Exchange stores the resource fork vs how OS X does on a FAT formated USB stick is different, so the simple solution to that was to mac binary encode it before copying:

$ macbinary encode foo.img

Then I copied over the foo.img.bin file to the OS 9 machine. Then I was able to use StuffIt Expander 5.5 to extract foo.img from foo.img.bin and then I was able to mount the foo.img disk image.



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