Let's say I created a image like this:
ddrescue /dev/disk1 MY_CDROM_IMAGE.img (/dev/disk1 is my CDROM drive)
How can I mount this on my Mac?
Note: The image created is not a IMG file - it is just a raw dump of the CDROM. I can now replicate the disk by using dd.
When reading a CD, /dev/disk1 will access the entire 2352 bytes of each block. This is useful for reading an audio CD. It is sometimes called a raw image, or a CloneCD image.
On a MODE 1 CD-ROM, 2048 bytes of each 2352-byte block is used for data and most of the rest is used for error correction codes, because the integrity of the data is so important. With file system data, it is not possible to just ignore an erroneous sample like on an audio CD. Use /dev/disk1s0 to read the 2048-byte blocks, using the error correction codes to detect and correct any errors within each block. An ISO 9660 file system image is made up of these 2048-byte blocks, and you will be able to mount the resulting image directly.
Wikipedia has more information on the different formats.
If the CD-ROM contains a file system then there is not much point in capturing it in the raw format, since the error correction codes are redundant and will be recreated when you record the ISO image to another CD-ROM. However, if you already have the raw image and want to strip off the extra information, there is a program called ccd2iso which will do that.
IMG and ISO's mount natively in OSX. Alternatively use the Disk Utility in Leopard.
OSX cannot read RAW or CSFS images and mount them. You will therefore need to use dd and create an ISO of the raw image which can then be mounted.
To create an ISO using DD:
dd if=[filename.img] of=file.iso bs=2048
cp filename.img file.iso, except is maybe a little slower due to the weird block size.
Double-clicking didn't work?
It works for .iso files, maybe you should try to create an iso and mount it that way. I think you can create iso files with Disk Utility.app
Try this -
go to the directory of the image and type -
hdiutil mount MY_CDROM_IMAGE.img
The guide I read this from uses ISO, but I would assume it also works for IMG files
I know it is late. But I saw this question and got the answer from your comments. kinokijuf said its a raw image. Then derobert mentioned that a raw image is what is usually called an iso image. So then change the name or extension of the file to something like > image.iso
The command would be something like:
mv image.img image.iso
The just double-click the iso file, and you got your image :).
Hope it helps someone.
The answer I think should really be:
sudo hdiutil attach MYCOPYIED.ISO -imagekey diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage
sudo hdiutil makehybrid /Volumes/NAMEOFISOFS -iso -joliet -o namefornewdisk
