Re: creating 'omni like' disk images
Re: creating 'omni like' disk images
- Subject: Re: creating 'omni like' disk images
- From: Matthias Fripp <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:57:32 -0700
Here's one way.
1. Open Disk Copy.
2. Choose Image -> New Blank Image...
3.Give the file any name you want (you'll change it later). Give the
new volume a suitable name. Make sure it's "big enough" for your files.
4. Mount the new image (it should happen automatically).
5. Copy your background image file to the new volume.
6. Select your volume's window in the Finder. Choose View->Show View
Options. Click to change "This window only", then set the icon size
however you want it and choose Background: Picture -> Select... ->
choose the copy of your background picture that you put in the new
volume. (You can also change the icon for the volume using Get Info...,
but that might confuse your users.)
7. Use a disk utility (e.g., File Buddy) to make the background image
file invisible (so its icon won't show up in the Finder; the Finder will
still know where to find it for the background.) Close the Finder window
showing the volume contents, and reopen a window on the volume. The
background image should be in place, and the icon file for it should not
appear anywhere. (Maybe someone else knows a more "OS X" way than this
to make files invisible?)
8. Copy your distribution files over to the volume and place them where
you want in the window.
9. Eject the disk image volume (drag disk icon to the Trash).
10. Go back to Disk Copy. Choose Image->Convert Image... Choose your
.dmg file. Give a good name for the final .dmg file. Choose the option
for Image Format: Read/Only. Choose Convert, and Disk Copy will make a
new, read-only .dmg file sized just to fit your files.
11. There's no step 11!
Matthias
On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 05:30 PM, Tomas Zahradnicky wrote:
hello,
anyone know how to create a dmg image which will open itself when
mounted and will contain a picture as a background which is in hidden
file? i tried that and i wasn't much successful. i'd like to create
image similar to omni group images :).
thanks,
tomas
-- # Tomas Zahradnicky, Jr
# The Czech Technical University
# Dept of Computer Science, FEE-CTU Prague
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