Easily Mount an ISO in Mac OS X
April 22nd, 2008 - Command Line, How to, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks
If you’re wondering how to mount an ISO image in Mac OS X, it is very easy. In the Terminal type the following command: hdiutil mount sample.iso with sample.iso being the path to the image you want to mount. After the checksum is completet, your ISO will appear mounted on your Mac OS X desktop - that’s it. You you can actually mount virtually any other disk image type with hdiutil as well, so give .dmg .img a try too.
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Comments: 18
Comment from James Nevara
Time: June 11, 2008, 5:22 pm
easy enough, is it really any harder than that in the desktop gui view?
Comment from uxp
Time: August 6, 2008, 2:44 pm
@ James: This is a whole lot easier than trying to use the GUI when you’re logged in remotely via SSH.
Comment from cialis super active
Time: January 21, 2009, 1:45 am
Very interesting topic about Easily Mount an ISO in Mac OS X, I find very useful information, thanks.
Comment from @ngel
Time: January 23, 2009, 4:39 pm
I tried it with an .img file and it doesn’t really work…
Comment from paulc
Time: February 26, 2009, 6:19 am
It worked.. but now what? the image is mounted but when i click on it it just does the same thing… which is nothing lol.. please help
Comment from Beforez
Time: March 11, 2009, 6:43 am
Dude, read the title.
“Easily mount an” - and then comes the important part - “ISO” - got it? .. “in Mac OS X”.
Okay, *sigh* I will explain…
I.S.O
ISO.
ISO is _not_ an IMG.
got it?
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Comment from @ngel
Time: January 23, 2009, 4:39 pm
I tried it with an .img file and it doesn’t really work…
Comment from cory
Time: March 16, 2009, 6:46 am
@Beforez
Maybe you should read the whole post before making impolite and condescending comments.
Comment from Shane
Time: March 27, 2009, 12:42 pm
I can’t get my .iso to mount… Can I get some assitance? The iso’s on the desktop, but it’s not mounting correctly for some reason.
Comment from sprale
Time: April 1, 2009, 1:16 pm
Mounting an ISO of Ubuntu 8.10 fails on my 10.5.6 Mac.
Comment from sprale
Time: April 1, 2009, 1:18 pm
Toast 10 mounted the ISO fine for me, though.
Comment from Kesr
Time: April 12, 2009, 7:34 pm
If your iso is on the desktop, simply type ”Cd desktop” in terminal before typing ”hdiutil mount sample.iso”
Comment from tc
Time: April 13, 2009, 6:34 pm
Hi. I’m trying to mount a wii iso file and even though I follow the above instructions, it simply doesn’t work. It says the iso file cannot be mounted (or something to that effect). Any ideas? I can’t burn it if I cannot mount it properly.
Comment from bogglegz
Time: April 22, 2009, 10:05 pm
@ Kesr: good point, but as unix commands are case sensitive, make sure to type “cd Desktop”
Comment from bogglegz
Time: April 22, 2009, 10:05 pm
or better yet, cd ~/Desktop
Comment from zer0crew
Time: June 2, 2009, 7:59 am
I used Toast 9
Select “Convert” tab, then “Image File”, then “Mount”
Worked great.
Comment from bob
Time: June 9, 2009, 2:27 pm
what does it mean by ‘…the path to the image you want to mount’? I dont know what to type. please help.
Comment from matt
Time: June 11, 2009, 11:58 pm
I just tried this as well, but got the error:
hdiutil: attach: extra image argument “Fantasy” - “Final” already specified
Usage: hdiutil attach [options]
hdiutil attach -help
any suggestions??
Comment from triyanto
Time: July 4, 2009, 1:08 am
who can help me to know location this ISO expect torent host
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