I'm writing to contribute a shell script which creates a disk image via terminal commands. I wrote it a few years ago so I can't quite explain how it works and likely needs some cleanup - but it basically does the job. It doesn't support a background image yet nor icon positioning.
Thanks,
Philip Weaver
<exec dir="." os="Mac OS X" executable="/bin/sh"> <arg value="-c"/> <arg value="./scripts/mkdmg.sh /Users/Me/Development/ ./mac/ ./mac-image/ Project"/> </exec> <gzip zipfile="${dist}/mac-image/MyTool .dmg.gz" src="${dist}/mac-image/MyTool.dmg"/>
#!/bin/sh BASE="$1" SRC="$2" DEST="$3" VOLUME="$4" echo Base Directory $1 echo Source $2 echo Destination $3 echo Volume $4 TEMP="TEMPORARY" cd BASE hdiutil create -megabytes 5 $DEST$TEMP.dmg -layout NONE MY_DISK=`hdid -nomount $DEST$TEMP.dmg` newfs_hfs -v $VOLUME $MY_DISK hdiutil eject $MY_DISK hdid $DEST$TEMP.dmg chflags -R nouchg,noschg "$SRC" ditto -rsrcFork -v "$SRC" "/Volumes/$VOLUME" #ditto -rsrcFork -v "./background/" "/Volumes/$VOLUME" hdiutil eject $MY_DISK hdiutil convert -format UDCO $DEST$TEMP.dmg -o $DEST$VOLUME.dmg hdiutil internet-enable -yes $DEST$VOLUME.dmg