Howto: Mount .ISO, .IMG, .BIN, .MDF, and .NRG in Ubuntu Linux The Easy way

I download .iso's all the time, and wanted to be able to mount iso's for winblows games on wine. What this does is map your iso to a filesystem directory. Here is what I did, and here is what you can do as well.
First grab fuseiso
sudo apt-get install fuseiso
If you are in firefox and have apt-url installed click here to install with one click!
Then lets add ourselves to the fuse usergroup
sudo adduser myusename fuse
If you were not in the fuse group you will need to log off, then back in right now.
Now lets create ourselves a fuseiso folder to mount our iso
sudo mkdir /media/fuseiso
Now we just grabbed an iso off the net, so lets mount it!
sudo fuseiso myisofile.iso /media/fuseiso
Ok now the iso is mounted and we can use it like its a cd/dvd
Nautilus/cd your way to /media/fuseiso and the files from the iso will be mounted readonly.

More information on fuseiso can be found here

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This was an nice tip for mounting iso files the easy way.
anytime, I seen this on a site years ago, and use fuseiso all the time, I thought it may be useful to others as well
gISOmount is another nifty little tool.

I love your blog by the way.
My tip would be to use cdemu. It works exactly like daemon tools.. you just mount a file and an icon for the cddrive will pop up automatically. The great thing is, that linux really thinks it is a cd/dvd-drive. fuseiso just mounts the image so that you can access the files.
I'm using AcetoneeISO2, for me is more easy not to use the terminal, can get it at getdeb.net
Nice and simple way to mount iso's. I used this to create nautilus scripts so all you have to do is right click a file and choose Script->Mount

http://www.anders.bennehag.com/posts/2008/mount-i...
this is exactly what I was looking for, I really don't want/need to burn cds of every ISO I have, if I can just mount it and install it to the pendrive, then I can use that as my install and not waste so many CDRs. Thanks
or you could do it manually without installing another application and usergroup:

sudo mkdir /media/iso
sudo mount -o loop myisofile.iso /media/iso
1 reply · active 669 weeks ago
@Vlad003 You forgot the file system type and this doesn't work unless you know this info in advance.

@PureW Great idea, especially since I am a GUI guy.

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