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thanks and hdiutil suggestion
Thanks for the pointer on ASR, that'll come in handy when I upgrade a lab of 60 iMacs to 10.2.X
thanks and hdiutil suggestion
I have prepared images and compressed them or converted them to read-only, mounting them successfully afterwards. Several different sizes, including a 2 gigabyte one that was almost completely full. No problems. It looks like it is just system images (perhaps the boot block info?) that have the problem.
I decided to skip the conversion step and simply go from a disk partition to a compressed image and see what 'asr' could do with that. Here is the sequence I got with the latest one: % sudo asr -imagescan macosx10.1.5a.dmg Password: /usr/bin/hdiutil: detach: "disk1" detached successfully. /usr/bin/hdiutil: detach: "disk1s1" detached successfully. /usr/bin/hdiutil: detach: "disk1s2" detached successfully. asr: unable to unflatten "macosx10.1.5a.dmg" - %s. asr: unable to write UDIF info into "macosx10.1.5a.dmg" - 78. Function not implemented. asr: image scan failed - Function not implemented.There are several things going on, after some reading. A compressed image can still be mounted so that checksums can be computed for many of the files and folders. Once these are done, the image is "unflattened", i.e., made multipart so that the checksums can be appended. Something seems to be going wrong with these steps.
HDIutil and ASR
Well, I think I have got it, but it will take a few more hours of testing to confirm. I wanted to let you know that I surmounted one of the hurdles.
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