Mount an ISO image as a filesystem in Linux

March 30th, 2007 Posted in Linux

LinuxQuite frequently when installing software, you’re required to use CDs or DVDs to perform the install.  In the last few years, downloads of CD images has become prevalent from software vendors.  It saves them the cost of the actual media, packaging, and postage to get it to you.  It’s also more convenient for us as System Administrators to have the software just minutes after we buy it rather than waiting a week or more for it to show up via snail mail.  Once you have that image though, you generally need to burn it to some type of media before you can actually use it, which though negligible, still costs money in blank media and the time that it takes to burn it.  Here’s a trick you can use in Linux to directly mount an ISO image that is on one of your local drives: mount -o loop /path/to/isoImage.iso /mntThat’s it … just change directory to /mnt and look at all the files in the ISO just like you had mounted an actual CD.





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