Virtual CD/DVD Drive - a real one
Hi everyone,
I researched this topic quite a lot and haven't found a good solution yet. So I'm turning to you people. Here's what I'm up to:
I need to mount a disk image (.iso) in the system so it is recognized as a CD/DVD drive.
Now here's what I know, and what I don't want to do 🙂 :
1. I can't burn it on CD/DVD because ... I don't want it 😉 Having listening to a helicopter-like noise of spinning disc for couple of hours makes me wan't to kill someone with a blunt instrument.
2. I know there's a Toast Titanium app out there with a virtual drive mount option, but buying this program for $99 just to mount a image is a little bit odd. I practically don't burn disc nowdays, and even if I do, the OS X available tool is fine for me.
3. Double clicking on image (and thus mounting it normally with Disk Utility) is not an option in this case too. The app I'm using is aware it's not a real CD drive.
4. Converting it to .cdr format and mounting does not work either.
5. I tried to mount it with mount command in terminal like this:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/myImage.iso ~/media/iso
but I get this error in return:
mount: exec /System/Library/Filesystems/iso9660.fs/Contents/Resources/mount_iso9660 for /media/iso: No such file or directory
and don't know how to exactly do whith this.
So, is there any cheap or even free app to mount iso image as a virtual cd/dvd or a way in mac os to do this? Anyone had a similar experience?
I'm shure it's a common problem.
Mac OS X (10.6.7)