Here's what my husband does. He double clicks on the image in disc utilities, which causes the drive to show on the desktop. He clicks on that and then your window will open up in finder. Hope that helps.
On Nov 26, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > It doesn't really matter what I want to use it for. I want to mount it like a > CD, just like it is actually burned to a CD. Which I've been saying in the > passed few posts. If I have a DVD in an ISO image I want to use, as an > example. > > Microsoft has its own program for doing this on Windows, and it works very > well. What it basically does is virtualize a CD-rom drive, and when you ask > it to mount the ISO image, it will make it appear that a disk has actually > been inserted and show you the appropriate dialogs for setups, DVDs, and > so-forth, to clarify even further., which eliminates the need to burn ISO > images to disks to you're not required to buy them. The virtual drive will > behave like a regular drive, and so will the image as if it was inserted into > the drive on a CD or DVD. Hope this will make it easier to understand. It's > probably not even necessary to virtualize, I hope. > > Regards, > Nic > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: [email protected] > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile > My Twitter > > On Nov 26, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Kieren wrote: > >> >>> If there is, I'd like to know. I don't see it. I even looked through the >>> help, and there is no mention of mounting ISO files, only opening them if >>> you would like to burn them. I want to mount them and use them as a virtual >>> CD, not open to burn them. >> >> So the Question remains what are you trying to do? Install an OS? >> Play audio? what? >> Without you explaining the context of your need to mount but not open >> which BTW are one and the same thing when it comes >> to .iso, .dmg, .cdr, .sparseimage and many other multi file/disk >> archiving formats. >> To put it simply mounting an ISO ie double click the .iso file to open >> it is THE SAME as burning it to a physical disk and then putting it >> back in the drive to read the data off it it is read only. ISO files >> are not read/write. >> >> For clarification how would you do this on a windows box? I think you >> are asking the wrong question. if you are looking to create an >> expandable archive then you can use the disk utility to create a NEW >> image of a set size which is read/write which will pre-allocate the >> disk space straight away. >> Or you can create a sparseimage which is also read/write but will grow >> in disk size up to a set limit. >> These are not iso standard but there are a few utils around which will >> burn their contents to disk if needed or convert them to other >> formats. >> >> Kieren >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
