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an be done, but not from a nice user interface.


I was playing around with the gparted Linux live partitioning distro. I had used this to re-arrange the partitions on my Linux VMWare image so it could be easily resized. This ISO is a hybrid and and doesn't mount from the finder. Here are some interesting commands. (All run from root)


hdiutil imageinfo gparted-live-0.25.0-3-i686.iso

Display all kinds of information about the image


hdiutil pmap gparted-live-0.25.0-3-i686.iso

Display the partition map


And here is the good stuff...


hdiutil attach -nobrowse -nomount gparted-live-0.25.0-3-i686.iso

Attach to the image but don't mount anything. It will print out the useable partitions like so:


/dev/disk2          FDisk_partition_scheme         

/dev/disk2s2        0xEF                           


Since this is a hybrid image, the one I want is the first one.


mount -t cd9660 /dev/disk2 /tmp/cd

Where I have created /tmp/cd (as root). Now the full CD is mounted at /tmp/cd


When I'm done, do the following...


hdiutil detach /dev/disk2

"disk2" unmounted.

"disk2" ejected.