Mounting .iso file on disk

[Todd Slater]

On 12/20/06, Mark Mace <macem at ohio.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I've got a file pictures.iso that I don't remember what is on it. How
> > can I mount it without burning it to a disk? Thanks.
> >

> using ubuntu 6.10.  I can browse to an iso in nautalis (sp?) and double
> click on it.  It opens it much like it would open a .gz file.
>
> there is also a way to do it in the command line, but I am quickly
> loosing that information due to the ease of using the gooey.

Make a directory to mount it in, like /mnt/iso, then use the mount
using the loopback option, e.g. mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso
/mnt/iso

Todd