Mounting iso files in windows requires you to install Daemon tools,alcohol software etc but things are different and better in linux.Say you have a file called myfile.iso now to mount it on your system all you have to do is make a folder for mounting it say you name it miso.Here are the commands…
**Create a folder called miso **
$mkdir miso
**(assuming both myfile.iso and folder miso are in the same directory) now mount the file called myfile.iso in miso**
$sudo mount -o loop myfile.iso miso
**if miso is in /mnt directory and myfile.iso is in the downloads directory of your home directory**
$sudo mount -o loop ~/Downloads/myfile.iso /mnt/miso
Congrats ! Your iso file is mounted in miso directory
If you don’t have root access that is sudo then you can try this command
$mount -o loop -t iso9660 myfile.iso miso
Enjoy!
2 responses so far ↓
Boo Radley // August 28, 2008 at 2:06 am
Be nice if you expanded on the article and explained what the options were for -o, -t, loop…
Abhishek // August 30, 2008 at 12:37 pm
@Boo Radley :mount -t is used to specify the filesystem type after the -t flag..that means -t flag is used to specify filesystem type..
loop is used for specifying loop devices.
If no explicit loop device is mentioned (but just an option ‘-o loop’ is given), then mount will try to find some unused loop device and use that.Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separated string of options.
(the above info i took directly form the manual for mount …try man mount for more info)