Comments on: Easily Mount an ISO in Mac OS X

By: James

James — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:50:29 +0000

ISO and IMG are much the same thing; they’re both filesystems in a distributable/ loopback form- an ISO is usually an iso9660 image (Which is where we get the name from) though of course because OSX relies on magic numbers and not suffixes it could be anything:

bash-3.2$ file centos-5.5.img
centos-5.5.img: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data ‘CentOS_5.5_Final’ (bootable)

Now; hdiutil is essentially a wrapper around the mount command to do the Mac specifics; you can see this with strings /usr/bin/hdiutil|less.

I know it is tempting to jump on the perceived “I’m a Mac user, that must mean I can be a dick” bandwagon but seriously? Use your brain a little more.

By: JazzyJ

JazzyJ — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:04:43 +0000

PROBLEM SOLVED!!

You no longer need to have a 1GB Toast app!!

Download ToastMount and use this:

http://toastmount.sourceforge.net/

By: Mount a DMG from the Command Line in Mac OS X

Mount a DMG from the Command Line in Mac OS X — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:35:51 +0000

[...] hdiutil tool works to mount .iso and other image files as well as being able to convert them to other disk image formats. [...]

By: yao

yao — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:22:31 +0000

Hi, i got an .iso file, i managed to mount it bt it won’t play, just a whole bunch of files, it appears to be mounted but i can’t play the dvd. Help please…

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:43:45 +0000

thank u !!!!!!!!! I needed this info.. And its so simple !

By: jake

jake — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:48:54 +0000

this works fine, i can browse the dvd, but there is no option (that i can see) to autoplay the dvd so it runs like a real dvd movie

By: Mounting Discs and Disc Images in Windows and Mac OSX | Sourcegirl – Adventures in Software, Hardware, Cloud & Mobile

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:59:40 +0000

[...] disks, as well in Mac OSX. It’s a bit easier in Mac as there is a built in utility called Disk Utility, but you have to go find it in the Utilities section of Applications (or run from a command [...]

By: ImacTard

ImacTard — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:04:58 +0000

i mounted my mac once. it was a very tender moment.

By: ImacTard

ImacTard — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:00:57 +0000

WOW thanks

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:10:57 +0000

A JPEG is an image as well but you can’t double click to mount those in Mac OS X either.

See what I did there?

By: BeforeA

BeforeA — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:22:42 +0000

An ISO is an image, dimwit.

By: Fishcake21

Fishcake21 — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:07:57 +0000

Wii isos uses a custom proprietary file system that Operating systems do not recognize.

And if you burned the disc, it will show on windows as unrecognize format, but with OSX it will show as a blank disc when that is not true, and you have to do a raw data dump.

Of course i don’t expect you to know about this… completely off related topic..

By: ben

ben — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:01:13 +0000

hey! just wondering where you got the copy of reason 5? ive been looking everywhere and could only find reason 4.. please help!! much appreciated!! :D

By: bmarey83

bmarey83 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:26:23 +0000

loco nino, i had the same problem, all you have to do is use toast to mount the file and then it works and reason will detect your disc!

By: uyen

uyen — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:15:41 +0000

hi,
all the files are unix executable files after I mount .iso file. How can i install .iso file on Mac? it’s a software.
thank you.