If I have an .iso file (a windows disk image) is there any way that I can mount the image on a mac?
yet another computer question from me.
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chupe666
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Ok, now that one you should seriously ask Paul- he works on macs and does tons of graphic, so he should (probably) be able to answer that.
I just logged into my email to mail paul, so what happened was I logged in, checked my email, delted all the spam, and logged out. TOTALLY FORGETTING WHY I HAD LOGGED IN IN THE FIRST PLACE.
FalseTodd
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Why can't you just burn a CD of the ISO? Or does the Mac need to see it as a drive or something ridiculous like that?
FalseTodd
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Nice one sam.
Sam, I can burn the iso, but it will not work as a boot disk on a mac. In order to create a boot disk you have to somehow extract the disk image and burn that.
Sam, I can burn the iso, but it will not work as a boot disk on a mac. In order to create a boot disk you have to somehow extract the disk image and burn that.
FalseTodd
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Right - but you already have the disk image extracted, right? Or maybe you need to burn the ISO, copy the contents to a drive, create a partition, mount partition, etc. etc.
Wow. Probably not the person to answer this question. Have made fool of self. Unsticking thread.
(Fear of thread being immediately re-stuck by Toby)
Wow. Probably not the person to answer this question. Have made fool of self. Unsticking thread.
(Fear of thread being immediately re-stuck by Toby)
FalseTodd
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Oh, cause I was going to say that I don't ISO is windows-specific. I mean it's ISO9660 or whatever, which ought to be platform-independent. Perhaps I'm mixed up.
FalseTodd
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!@$#%! REALLY?? I actually didn't think of that. Does Toast DO that? ARRGGHH I HAVE WASTED SO MUCH TIME
avi
W3RK3R
Toast should be able to handle it- it has a conversion tool for making PC format CDs readable in a mac file structure. I actually had to do some research on this crap for work not too long ago. Anyhoo- the mac and PC have different directory formats and are not cross-browser compatible. That's why the filenames appear different when your mac reads PC files.
so i toast, do i set the format to iso9660, drop the iso in, burn the CD, and then I'll have a CD that I can boot from?
avi
W3RK3R
I'm not super familiar with Toast so i can't answer that. I know they have some feature for creating boot cds though.
If I choose "Disc Image" it won't let me mount the image in toast although there's an option for it. It tells me there's a MacOS error. But if I DO choose disk image, will it burn the .iso as a mountable image instead of as the .iso?
Mark
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avi
W3RK3R
FalseTodd
Skirt Wizard
Maybe the simplest thing to do is just to burn it as ISO9660, then copy all the files off of the burned CD, create your partition, and burn the bootable CD from that. That should work I think....
