How do I mount an ISO or DMG image to install MathWorks products?

I have a MathWorks products ISO or DMG, how can I mount it to install MathWorks products?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

An ISO (Windows, Linux) or DMG (Mac) file is an archive of a CD or DVD. License administrators can download an ISO or DMG archive containing all MathWorks products for a release from the Downloads page. For more details, see How do I download a MATLAB ISO or DMG archive? 

If you already have an ISO or DMG archive containing MathWorks products, you can mount that archive directly to a computer, as if it were a disk drive, and then install the products using the interactive installer included in the archive. Follow the instructions for your operating system. 

Windows

To mount an ISO archive on Windows: 

1. Double-click the downloaded ISO archive to mount it to a drive. The ISO archive appears under This PC, as if it were a physical disk.
   • Windows 7 and older do not natively support mounting an ISO archive. As an alternative, you can extract the ISO files to your computer using a third-party tool, such as 7Zip. 
2. To install products, double-click the setup.exe file included in the mounted archive and follow the installer prompts.

Alternatives:

• Instead of mounting the archive, you can right-click the archive to burn the disc image to a DVD.
• If you are installing a multi-DVD release (R2016a to R2018b), dismount the first disk, and then mount the second disk to the first disk’s mounted location. For example, if you mounted disk 1 to the D: drive, eject disk 1 and double-click disk 2 to also mount it to the D: drive. Alternatively, you can merge the ISOs, as described in this support article. 

macOS

To mount a DMG archive on macOS:

1. Double-click the downloaded DMG archive to mount it to a drive, as if it were a physical disk.
2. To install products, double-click the InstallForMacOS<OSName>.app file included in the mounted archive and follow the installer prompts.

Alternatives:

• Instead of mounting the archive, you can use Disk Utility (located in /Applications/Utilities) to burn the archive to a DVD.

Linux

To mount an ISO archive on most Red Hat and Debian distributions:

1. Create a folder to use as a mount point.

   mkdir /media/mathworks

2. Mount the downloaded ISO archive to that folder. For example, this command mounts an ISO located in the Downloads subfolder of a user’s home folder.

   mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/Downloads/R20XXy_Update_N_Linux.iso /media/mathworks

3. Navigate to the mount point:

   cd /media/mathworks

4. To install products, run the install script included in the mount point and follow the installer prompts.

   ./install

[Royi Avital]

Could you offer a simple way to see the MD5 of the ISO's? Thank You.

Answer 2

[Muhammad Awais Manzoor]

After downloading iso formats of both cd. cd1(around 7 GB) and cd2(arounf 2.5 GB), do the following steps: 1). Unmount CD1 and install that.

2). then it would ask you to eject cd1 and insert CD2 at this point you have to open My Computer and from there you have to eject CD1 by right clicking on it.(but rememeber the drive name)

3). Now unmount CD2(but be careful because the drive name for CD2 must match the drive name of CD1).

4). Now press OK on the pop up which was asking for inserting CD2.

Done. Now it should be installed.

That worked for me and i hope that would work for everyone.