Opening Iso file in Linux

Ones who like trying many Linux distros or ones who like playing PSX game on emulator (stop piracy hehehe :D ), at least had once facing an iso file. If you want to open and read the contain, you can do it with this command on terminal (login as root):

# mount file.iso /destination/directory -o loop

then open /destination/directory.

That command means mounting a file name 'file.iso' to '/destination/directory'. While '-o loop' means mount will try to find some unused loop device and use that. You can change 'file.iso' with your file name, and change '/destination/directory' to your destination directory.

For example, if you have a file 'Movie.iso' in '/tmp' directory that you want to be mounted on '/mnt/Movie'. To mount it, type command:

# mount /tmp/Movie.iso /mnt/Movie -o loop

Next, open /mnt/Movie directory to view the contain of Film.iso.


Have a good try....;)