OSX and .ISO files?

Hogzy

Is it possible to mount an iso image in OSX, Just ordered a mac (first timer) and i never thought about this problem!

Mena

Hogzy wrote: »

Is it possible to mount an iso image in OSX, Just ordered a mac (first timer) and i never thought about this problem!

You can yes, however it does not read it as a DVD or CD, simply another "disk". This does however work with things such as the DVD player without any issues.

(for the life of me I cannot recall the name of the app used to mount them... disk manager or something : Applications --> Utilities)

J-blk

Mena wrote: »

(for the life of me I cannot recall the name of the app used to mount them... disk manager or something : Applications --> Utilities)

"Disk Utility" - which is indeed under Applications => Utilities. You can mount any ISO from there, it's pretty straightforward...

Hogzy

So IF one were to, lets say, download a program from piratebay and said program was in an .iso format then one would have the ability to mount the program on a mac? (and subsoquently upon success pay for the license to use the program:))

Mena

J-blk wrote: »

"Disk Utility" - which is indeed under Applications => Utilities. You can mount any ISO from there, it's pretty straightforward...

Cheers, I use it daily and still forget the name

Hogsy wrote:

So IF one were to, lets say, download a program from piratebay and said program was in an .iso format then one would have the ability to mount the program on a mac? (and subsoquently upon success pay for the license to use the program)

So long as it's a Mac Compatible app then yes, no problem.

Feelgood

Doesn't Stuffit allow you to mount ISO's too?

syklops

well from a pure unix point of view, which is what OSX is, you can do it running the following command(as root). Please note the directories may be different on your computer:

mount -o loop /home/user/image_file.iso /media/disk

image_file.iso is the file you want to mount, and /media/disk is where you want to mount it.

I have not used a Mac in years so can not tell you how to do it using the GUI.

big_moe

to be honest, most things that some people may download from TPB are in .dmg format for mac.

as far as im aware, .dmg is more widely used than .iso for mac

projectmayhem

big_moe wrote: »

to be honest, most things that some people may download from TPB are in .dmg format for mac.

as far as im aware, .dmg is more widely used than .iso for mac

Yeah .dmg is far more used then .iso, but in the case of an ISO cropping up, usually DiskImageMounter will handle it.

deevey

Certain software that requires the CD to be in the drive may not work, Toast however mounts ISO's as CD's

dubmick

Yeah I use Toast for mounting too