P.S. How can I capture the information in the manual to a text document? Simply? On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:55 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote: > Okay.... > > ...how do I determine the size of the disk image I need to create? > > Regards, > > Chuck > > On Jan 15, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Mark Lively wrote: > >> 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 >>>> >>> >> >