Friday, December 12, 2008

How to mount an iso image under Linux

Procedure to Mount ISO images under LINUX

1)Create the directory aka mount point
  • mkdir -p /path/Directory_Name
2)Using mount command
First move into the directory containing the .iso file and then use the command mentioned below.
  • sudo mount -o loop file_name.iso /path/Directory_Name
In order to mount files into LINUX file system, one must have administrative priviledge, so we must use sudo(i.e, super user do).

Chill out! Your ISO image file has been mounted.