MOUNTING AN ISO IMAGE ON A MAC RATHER THAN A CD

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CJCornish
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MOUNTING AN ISO IMAGE ON A MAC RATHER THAN A CD

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I was looking at A link which says: " > Virtual Media Manager, click on tab CD/DVD Images and add the ISO there. Next, you open the VM settings, click on Storage on the left and select the CD/DVD drive (identifiable by the disc icon) in the middle. Then on the right you click on the CD/DVD Device dropdown and pick the ISO from the list."

However, I don't get a tab that says CD/DVD but it's "Optical Drives" and when I click on that there is no way to add an iso. No add button/no Drag and Drop capability. This was written in 2010 so that might have something to do with it. Do I have to make a CD?
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Re: MOUNTING AN ISO IMAGE ON A MAC RATHER THAN A CD

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(I hope what I'm doing will work)

You go to the VM settings and as it can seen by the following
download/file.php?id=10998
that's where you point it to either the CD or an ISO.

Please let me know if you can see the attachment...
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Re: MOUNTING AN ISO IMAGE ON A MAC RATHER THAN A CD

Post by mpack »

The attachment is available, were you trying to avoid uploading the same image twice? If so you could use an img link, e.g. :-
("quote" this message to see the full bbcode).

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Re: MOUNTING AN ISO IMAGE ON A MAC RATHER THAN A CD

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mpack wrote:The attachment is available, were you trying to avoid uploading the same image twice? If so you could use an img link, e.g. :- ("quote" this message to see the full bbcode).
Nice one! Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to do. Thanks Don.
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