Hi, It'll open up just fine, and I can see the files. But if you have a disk with the same image and you click it, it'll open DVD and play it. It's something similar to that I want. I know Windows can do that, and hopefully so can the Mac.
Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov 26, 2009, at 7:38 PM, carlene knight wrote: > 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: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk >> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
