Easy iso mount?

[Metaphysik]

Is there a program to right-click on an iso file to mount it as a virtual CD, similar to Windows on Linux? So nothing with console, mount etc? Unfortunately I have not found anything yet.

[fehlix]

Is there a program to right-click on an iso file to mount it as a virtual CD, similar to Windows on Linux? So nothing with console, mount etc? Unfortunately I have not found anything yet.

The package gnome-disk-utility provides such a right-click function.

[Adrian]

I prefer the console iso-mount...

[operadude]

I prefer the console iso-mount...

I would like to try "iso-mount", but I can't find it with:

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sudo apt-get install iso-mount

This is what I get:

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package iso-mount

I also tried "aptitude", and here's what I got:

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$ sudo aptitude install iso-mount
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "iso-mount"
Unable to apply some actions, aborting

Maybe it goes by a different name?

[Adrian]

Sorry, my fault, it's "isomount", it also has the counterpart isoumount. You need to use sudo, for isomount you give the ISO file name as argument, for the isoumount you just run it without arguments and it umounts any ISO you might have mounted.

[Gabriel_M]

AcetoneISO is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images.
AcetoneISO will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other things.

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb

[fan_of_LTS]

I am currently in MX21. In Thunar, I selected Edit then Configure custom actions...

From somewhere on the Internet I found that using the command mkdir %f.mount & fuseiso %f %f.mount and Appearance Conditions *.iso with Other files checked gives me a right click option in Thunar to mount the ISO. After browsing the iso and doing your thing you can dismount with Thunar.

I think there was previous discussion on the forum about this but I have too much to catch up on today to look now. Hope this helps you.

[m_pav]

@fan_of_LTS That works for mounting but on umount, the temporary mount point made from the name of the ISO in the same dir as the ISO is not removed, so it needs a follow up removal of the empty folders.

Compared to the command @Adrian gave, the isomount mounts the ISO at /mnt/iso and the isoumount also doesn't remove the folders it created, but I would hasten to say it is not at all a bad thing because /mnt/iso can be recycled the next time the isomount tool is used. One area where isomount is superior is when it mounts one of our own Live ISO's, the squashfs file that contains the full build as it will be on the disk when installed to /mnt/iso/sq1/ so we get to peruse the contents of the compressed filesystem contained within the Live ISO image.

isoumount like the Thunar Context Menu command does not remove the new directories, but they can be recycled for the next time an ISO is mounted.

both are good and have their benefits, just gotta keep in mind the cleanup

[BitJam]

Compared to the command @Adrian gave, the isomount mounts the ISO at /mnt/iso and the isoumount also doesn't remove the folders it created, but I would hasten to say it is not at all a bad thing because /mnt/iso can be recycled the next time the isomount tool is used. One area where isomount is superior is when it mounts one of our own Live ISO's, the squashfs file that contains the full build as it will be on the disk when installed to /mnt/iso/sq1/ so we get to peruse the contents of the compressed filesystem contained within the Live ISO image.

isoumount like the Thunar Context Menu command does not remove the new directories, but they can be recycled for the next time an ISO is mounted.

both are good and have their benefits, just gotta keep in mind the cleanup

The isomount program is supposed to remove subdirectories under /mnt/iso/ when their contents are unmounted. If this is not happening (and none of the subdirectories under the mount point are in use) then this is a bug that crept in, perhaps due to changes in the system. Running isoumount again might be a temporary work-around. Every successful umount is followed by an rmdir but the umount command can be a little weird, perhaps returning before the umount is complete. One band-aid might be to add a polling loop with a 10 ms delay that waits up to one second before concluding the file system was not unmounted.

The /mnt/iso/ directory is mounted as tmpfs so all of its subdirectories should disappear automatically when the system shuts down.

[operadude]

Sorry, my fault, it's "isomount", it also has the counterpart isoumount. You need to use sudo, for isomount you give the ISO file name as argument, for the isoumount you just run it without arguments and it umounts any ISO you might have mounted.

Thanks!

Yeah,

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man isomount

produces the manual information, which tells me that it's already installed on my system.

Will give it a go!

And thanks to everyone else for the feedback/comments.

As per usual, always learning