I am playing around with the .iso files for gentoo, just poking my head about to see whats going on... My friend who knows more about this than I do told me to "unsquash" a file (I had just mounted it and opened it in disk utility) and he reccomended using "unsquashfs -d filename" but I don't have that command, seeing as how I'm not running linux. Is there a similar command for mac?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Software Engineering Student
I don't know what that is, but I do know that running a Linux installer directly on a Mac can cause data loss. If you want to run Linux, run it on a virtual machine in VirtualBox, or better yet, on a separate physical machine.
"unsquashfs" is a command in linux that lets you browse what is inside of a squashed filesystem. I know that still kindof sounds like gibberish, but that's what it is/does. I am not trying to run linux directly on my box, I have VM's for that. What I was trying to do was look at the files that the .iso is comprised of so I can try to edit them myself, and then install a different (edited) version of that distribution. I was able to mount the .iso and open it so I could see what it contained, but there was a .squashfs file in it which I then needed that command for, otherwise I couldn't see what was in it. For anyone who finds this and has the same question, this will get you "unsqashfs":
http://zettelchen.blogspot.com/2009/04/build-squashfs-tools-for-mac-os-x.html
Is there a mac version of the command "unsquashfs"?
