DiskImageMounter

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DiskImageMounter
DiskImageMounter icon
Developer: Apple Computer
Latest release: 10.4 / 2005
OS: Mac OS X
Use: disk image emulator
Website: Apple.com

DiskImageMounter is the utility that handles mounting disk images in Mac OS X v10.3. Like BOMArchiveHelper it has no GUI when double-clicked, in fact doing so does nothing. It is found in /System/Library/CoreServices/DiskImageMounter.app. DiskImageMounter works by either launching a daemon to handle the disk image or by contacting a running dæmon and have it mount the disk. The only GUI the program ever displays is a window with a progress bar and mount options (cancel or skip verification) or an error report on why it could not mount the image.

[edit] Image formats supported

Icon for disk images in Mac OS X.
  • Apple Disk Image (.dmg, com.apple.disk-image)
  • UDIF disk images (.udif, com.apple.disk-image-udif); UDIF segment (.devs, .dmgpart, com.apple.disk-image-udif-segment
  • NDIF disk image (.ndif, .img, com.apple.disk-image-ndif); NDIF disk image segment (.imgpart, com.apple.disk-image-ndif-segment)
  • self mounting image (.smi, com.apple.disk-image-smi)
  • DVD/CD-R master image (.toast, .dvdr, .cdr, com.apple.disk-image-cdr, com.roxio.disk-image-toast)
  • disk image segment (dmgpart)
  • Disk Copy 4.2 disk image (.dc42, .diskcopy42, com.apple.disk-image-dc42)
  • DART disk image (.dart, com.apple.disk-image-dart)
  • raw disk image (OSTypes: devr, hdrv, DDim, com.apple.disk-image-raw)
  • PC drive container (OSTypes: OPCD, com.apple.disk-image-pc)
  • ISO image (.iso, public.iso-image)
  • sparse disk image (.sparseimage, com.apple.disk-image-sparse)

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