Installing Student Version MATLAB
Download the installation image
The ISO images of the Student Version disks issued to those who were Part IB students in 2009/10 or in 2010/11 are available here. If you are in this category and are replacing a lost disk you must download the right version, as your serial number will work only with the one for which it was issued - Part 1B students in 2009/10 need the 2009a.iso, Part 1B students in 2010/11 need the 2010a.iso.
However, under the recently completed (15/11/2010) unlimited site licence agreement with MathWorks (which extends until 30th September 2012), as an undergraduate student at the University you are now automatically entitled to install MATLAB on your personally-owned computer, for non-commercial University use only. The versions available are different. The image files and full installation instructions are available here.
Installing from .iso files
These instructions are for those who have downloaded the 2009a.iso or 2010a.iso.
MacOSX
The .iso is an iso image file. Double-clicking will mount as a new Volume on your desktop. Open this and run the installer.
Windows
Burn the .iso file as a disk image to CD (i.e. don't just copy the file to a disk - software such as Ahead Nero will allow you to do this), or mount the .iso file as a Virtual CD using a tool such as Microsoft's Virtual CD driver. Run the setup program from the CD or from your Virtual CD.
Note: It has been reported that MS Virtual CD doesn't work well with Windows 7. Virtual Clone Drive works better and is a free download.
Linux
You can burn the .iso file to CD, or mount the file on your machine using something like the following (as root or using sudo on distributions like Ubuntu):
mkdir /mnt/matlab mount -o ro,loop ./matlabSV-2009a.iso /mnt/matlab /mnt/matlab/install umount /mnt/matlab