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By: Atle

Atle — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:58:35 +0000

Thanks a lot!! I had a .iso I needed to restore with disk utility, but it wouldn’t recognize the .iso format. This little terminal trick worked like a charm! Awesome!!

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By: rippsss

rippsss — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:58:24 +0000

i am trying to mount a series of .iso images that work fine on my XP machine. when i try to mount them through the terminal i get the following error:
hdiutil: mount failed – not recognized
i receive similar errrors when attempting to mount the image by double-clicking the icon from the desktop and attempting to open the image in disk utility.

any thoughts on what is going on here? the software on the disc is supposed to be Windows/Mac compatible and, as i mentioned, i have been running the program from images mounted on my XP machine for quite some time now.

By: spamaoararoaa!

spamaoararoaa! — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:37:37 +0000

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.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:46:56 +0000

Confused, it may just make you more confused, but if you open Teminal and enter man hdiutil you will get the manual page for hdiutil. It’s possible some of the optional tags for the command, like -verbose or -debug might give you a clue.

By: Confused

Confused — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:05:51 +0000

I successfully mounted the disk, but i still cannot open the application because it says there is no disk inserted. It is clearly mounted, though. Any suggestions?

By: Newb

Newb — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:22:18 +0000

Fantastic, worked like a charm, appreciate it.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:05:20 +0000

@Newb , you can usually just mount an iso by double clicking on it which will mount it through Disk Utility. If you want to use the command line though just type

hdiutil mount ~/Desktop/imagefile.iso

~ is your home directory, and /Desktop/ is the literal desktop. Alternatively, you can just type hdiutil mount and then drag the file itself into the terminal and the path to it will appear after ‘hdiutil mount’ which works well if your file is in some obscure location

By: Newb

Newb — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:46:01 +0000

Ok, so I hate to be a newb and post a newb question, I am a very new mac user (in fact got it yesterday), and thus far love it, however I used to mount dvd iso’s on my windows laptop and watch them using powerdvd (to save on the battery). What I am trying to figure out is the exact command string that needs to be entered in Terminal for an iso that is located on the desktop. I tried just opening terminal and entering the details as per the example at the top of the page but it could not find the file (i’m assuming that the example assumes that the iso is in a root directory). In windows it was pretty simple c:/folder/file.iso if anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great. Cheers

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Mount CD/ DVD Image Sebagai Drive di Mac « Otak Kiri — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:39:26 +0000

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By: tmsyed

tmsyed — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:47:48 +0000

Great tip … I waisted hours in trying to import home videos from mini DVDs to iMovie. Tried several dvd rippers on a PC (because of MACs slotin dvd drive), several formats …. but wasn’t satisfied.
Mounting iso image of dvds is recognized as a camera by iMovie and import went flawlessly.
Thanks again.

By: klm

klm — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:38:38 +0000

(shucks – missed a backslash there…)

By: klm

klm — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:37:25 +0000

@matt and lucky, mabye there are spaces in the name of your .iso? if so, you have to do something extra to make the shell delivering the name to the program as a single, unitary item – you need to quote or escape the name.

for example, use quotes around the name:

hdiutil mount “Final Fantasy XVLII – Yet More.iso”

alternately, you can also use backslashes to “escape” the spaces:

hdiutil mount Final\ Fantasy\ XCVI\ -\ The Epoch.iso

avoiding this delicacy in expressing special characters is one way a gui can make things easier – but sometimes, at the loss of flexibility.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:54:06 +0000

matt, and lucky i think the problem is that your not actually mounting an iso. your most likely trying to mount an .rar, etc. so make sure you DL a program like UnRarX and extract the .rar file then mount the .iso file that pops up.