Viewing ISO Images on MacOS 10.15 Catalina

_{Author: MikeW Date: 2020-03-23T19:51:40+00:00}

Post Icon Just a quick blurb. Yesterday I was installing Ubuntu Linux 18.04 on VMWare Fusion on my Mac. Much to my chagrin, I noticed that DiskImagerMounter could no longer mount any of the new Linux distros. Throwing a no mountable file systems error on Debian and RedHat distros. My guess... There is a new filesystem used for those images that the utility can't read.

Anyway, I just want to test the integrity of the iso. So I found a workaround.

Install 7zip on MacOS

Just install the wonderful 7zip utility on MacOS.

Install Homebrew if not already installed.
brew install p7zip
7z l your-file-name.iso

That will list the contents of the iso so you can be sure that it is readable. An easy check with little overhead.