How to mount ISO images

Stop burning CD/DVD’s right now, unless you really need. This is what you have to do to mount an ISO image from a CD, DVD or floppy. Make sure you have persmissions to mount (start a session as root, run “su”, or use sudo… whatever works for you)

First create a mount point, for instance:
mkdir -p /mnt/iso

Then mount the file in that directory with:
mount -o loop disk1.iso /mnt/iso

That’s all! now the content of the ISO file (the same file structure you would find in a burnt media support) is availabe in your filesystem.

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