How to mount an ISO image in SUSE Linux & openSUSE
Posted by admin on July 13th, 2008
You can mount an ISO image onto your operating system instead of burning it onto a CD or a DVD. This can come handy and easy in situations and there you have the advantage of not wasting a media. A classic example would be when setting up a Jumpstart setup.
Let’s say that we have a ISO image of a CD named opensuse.iso in the directory /software
To mount it
opensuse11:~ # mount -o loop /software/opensuse.iso /mnt
where /mnt is the mount point.
This is equivalent to
opensuse11:~ # mount -t iso9660 -o loop /software/opensuse.iso /mnt
Now you can browse the contents of the ISO image by changing directory to /mnt
opensuse11:~ # cd /mnt
This should mount the ISO image. While this article is focussed on SUSE Linux and openSUSE, should work on most of the linux distributions including Ubuntu Fedora.
If you are looking for a way to mount an ISO image in Sun Solaris or openSolaris click here
July 10th, 2010 at 2:47 am
Note that this will be mounted read only. If you want to modify the mounted ISO image you will have to apply a short workaround as described here: Mount an ISO image in Linux.
July 17th, 2010 at 4:34 am
Note that this will mount the ISO image read only. If you need to mess with the contents of the image you will need to apply a few tricks as explained here: Mount an ISO image in Linux.