On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:30 AM, day 5 wrote:
On Nov 9, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Enrique Erne wrote:
.dmg sound proper but I've no idea where to start looking howto do that.
Make a disk image by opening "Disk Utility".app which is in /Applications/Utilities.
Then select from the "Images..." menu "Create New Image from Folder..." it will present a panel similar to [openpanel] which you will select a folder to convert into a disk image.
One thing that works also after this is to use bzip2 to compress the disk image. I have gotten a 9.8 MB disk image down to 264 Kb using this technique. An example command line (after you have the disk image) could be
$ bzip2 yourDiskImage.dmg
great worked fine ! thanks . although I got the same file size dmg.bz2 as tgz . is there any other advantage of a dmg ? ed mentioned something about :
The 'proper' way to do it is to make an installer (.dmg file).
what does installer mean in this case ? can I run a shell script? i.e I'd like to make a link ln -s to netPd-0.39-1.app/Contents/netpd/ or may have to set permission for that directory (and some others)
regards eni