Mounting an ISO image

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#1

Hi,

I am a newbie in Linux.

I have several ISO images. Whenever I desire to use these I used to create a Virtual Drive [CD/DVD drive], mount these image files, execute them in M$ Windows.

Is this same procedure possible in SUSE ?

Thanx for any valuable guidance.

Regards,

tvks

#2

to mount an iso there are several GUI’s you can use.

gmount is one of them.

but to use the command line is pretty easy too:

open a terminal window

mkdir <some_dir> i.e. mkdir tempmnt

mount -o loop <iso_name> <some_dir>

you can now cd to that dir and list, browse or copy FROM(only!) as any other dir on your system.

#3

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Linux/Unix has always been able to do this, thankfully, and it’s part of
the distribution out of the box. All you need are privileges and a
mountpoint. For example, /mnt is a common mountpoint, but I like
creating directories under there so, for your example:

mkdir /mnt/iso
mount /path/to/your/iso/file /mnt/iso

Now just browse /mnt/iso and you will see your ISO contents.

Good luck.

tvks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie in Linux.
>
> I have several ISO images. Whenever I desire to use these I used to
> create a Virtual Drive [CD/DVD drive], mount these image files, execute
> them in M$ Windows.
>
> Is this same procedure possible in SUSE ?
>
> Thanx for any valuable guidance.
>
> Regards,
>
> tvks
>
>
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#4

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Doh! I forgot the ‘-o loop’ part.

mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -o loop /path/to/your/iso/file /mnt/iso

Good luck.

ab@novell.com wrote:
> Linux/Unix has always been able to do this, thankfully, and it’s part of
> the distribution out of the box. All you need are privileges and a
> mountpoint. For example, /mnt is a common mountpoint, but I like
> creating directories under there so, for your example:
>
> mkdir /mnt/iso
> mount /path/to/your/iso/file /mnt/iso
>
> Now just browse /mnt/iso and you will see your ISO contents.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
>
>
> tvks wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> I am a newbie in Linux.
>
>> I have several ISO images. Whenever I desire to use these I used to
>> create a Virtual Drive [CD/DVD drive], mount these image files, execute
>> them in M$ Windows.
>
>> Is this same procedure possible in SUSE ?
>
>> Thanx for any valuable guidance.
>
>> Regards,
>
>> tvks
>
>
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#5

Hi there,

Apparently KDE does support this.
I don’t know if that works on all distros, but it does on my openSuse 10.3.

Have a look at:

jeffery fernandez » Blog Archive » Mounting an ISO image in Linux

Cheers
Dario