OS X - Mount .dmg image into a virtual DVD drive without Toast Titanium

Question

Toast Titanium 10 offers a way of mounting an image into a virtual DVD drive so that it is viewed as being a separate physical drive by other applications.

I was wondering if there was a way of achieving the same result using the built-in OS X tools (whether GUI or command line), as I am aware it has many of such built in.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The Disk Utility application in the Utilities folder is the GUI front end to the hdid command... You can perform most of the tasks via the Disk Utility application, and it's easier to use...

Answer 2

If Toast is not in stalled and you double click the "dmg" doesnt it mount by default?

Answer 3

From this URL

After reading the hdid man (via man hdid) page, I realized that we could mount .DMG images via HTTP under Terminal.app. And even cooler, the segmented images work too. Just reference the http-based DMG via this command: % hdid http://server.company.com/Images/stuff.dmg

Answer 4

Nope there's nothing available for OSX except for Toast that actually mounts the CD or DVD like a CD or DVD.

As you said disk utility in OSX doesn't work for the purpose that 10 million users want it for - to do the same as daemon tools, nero, alcohol can do on PC.

So the options are - buy toast. Install a 500MB program to mount a disc!

The web if full of people asking for the OSX equivalent of Daemon Tools but it will never come.