Yes.

Take a look at create option on hdiutil

hdiutil create -s 50m ~/Desktop/test.dmg

-Mark

On Jan 15, 2006, at 9:55 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote:

> Is it possible that one has to CREATE the file MyDiskImage.dmg  
> before one can ATTACH items such as a user folder to it? That might  
> explain why I'm getting the "no such file" error message.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chuck
>
> On Jan 15, 2006, at 4:13 PM, John Delacour wrote:
>
>> At 3:16 pm -0700 15/1/06, Chuck Pelto wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Barry Wainwright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do shell script "hdiutil attach '/Users/MyName/Documents/ 
>>>> MyDiskImage.dmg'-readonly"
>>>
>>> This syntax does not seem to work very well.
>>>
>>> I've used '/Users/whatgoesformyname/Documents/TestDiskImage.dmg'- 
>>> readonly and I get error messages about "no such file".
>>>
>>> The naming of the path IS correct.
>>
>>
>> Are you _sure_?  It works in every case for me so long as the path  
>> is right.  Are you sure you're not _both_ escaping spaces _and_  
>> enclosing in quotes.  You can do one or the other but not both,  
>> and since you don't tell us what your correct path is, it's  
>> impossible to say what's wrong.
>>
>>
>> do shell script¬
>>    "cd; hdiutil attach -readonly 'Downloads_060101/Eudora 6.2.3.dmg'"
>>
>> OR
>>
>> do shell script ¬
>>    "cd; hdiutil attach -readonly Downloads_060101/Eudora\\ 6.2.3.dmg"
>>
>> JD
>>
>