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How to: Mount an ISO image under Linux without burning a cd

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

An ISO image is an archive of an optical disk in a format ISO, the files typically have a file extension of .ISO . The name ISO is taken from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media.

Now we will mount an iso image in a linux operating system without burning a cd, to do that ,there are 2 ways available.

1 – without using the command line

Just make a right click on the ISO image file as described bellow :

-Right click on the iso image and choose : mount with archive mounter

The image will be mounted on your desktop

To unmount :

2- Mount an ISO image using command line

Command Method I

a – As root Create a directory (in my case isodir):

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/isodir

b- Mount the iso image ( my case i`m trying to mount slackware-12.1-install-dvd.iso) to the new directory :

sudo mount -o loop  slackware-12.1-install-dvd.iso /mnt/isodir

c- Change directory to the mounted one

cd /mnt/isodir 

d – List files stored inside the directory

ls -l

 

Command method II :

you can also mount the iso imageusing this command :

1- Create mount Directory

 mkdir isodir   

2- Mount the iso image to this directory using the command

 

 sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 Desktop/slackware-12.1-install-dvd.iso ./isodir

 

 

See also this howto in video :

 


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Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.
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  • mercier

    you can open iso files with vlc – if your dvd or cd with a movie is in iso format, simply open it with vlc and watch.

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    Mounting the ISO like this will be read only and you will not be able to modify the ISO image. If you want to modify the ISO image you will have to apply a short workaround as described here: [url=http://http://www.docplanet.org/linux/mount-an-iso-image-in-linux/http://www.docplanet.org/linux/mount-an-iso-image-in-linux/]Mounting an ISO image in Linux[/url]

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