How to mount ISO image files in Graphical
Environment (GUI) on Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux
Mounting ISO files in Linux is easy with
mount cmd, however
remembering the exact command one has to issue is a hard task
because mounting ISO files is not a common task.
Mounting
ISO files directly by clicking on the ISO file is
very nice, especially for lazy people uninitiated with the command
line ;)
Besides that I'm sure many Windows users are curious if there is an
equivallent program to DaemonTools for Linux / BSD*?
The answer to this question is YES!
There are two major programs which can be used as a
DaemonTools
substitute on Linux:
These are
FuriousISOMount and
AcetoneISO
AcetoneISO is more known and I've used it some long time ago and if
I'm correct it used to be one of the first ISO Mount GUI programs
for Linux. There is a project called
GMount-ISO /
(GMountISO) which of the time of writting this article seems to
be dead (at least I couldn't find the source code).
Luckily
FuriousISOMount and
AcetoneISO are pretty
easy to install and either one of the two is nowdays existing in
most Linux distributions.
Probably the programs can also be easily run on BSD platform also
quite easily using bsd linux emulation.
If someone has tried something to mount GUIs in Free/Net/OpenBSD,
I'll be interesting to hear how?
1. Mount ISO files GUI in GNOME with Furius ISO
Mount
FuriousISOMount is a simple Gtk+ interface to
mount -t
iso9660 -o loop command.
To start using the program on Debian / Ubuntu install with
apt;
debian:~# apt-get install furiusisomount
The following extra packages will be installed:
fuseiso fuseiso9660 libumlib0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
furiusisomount fuseiso fuseiso9660 libumlib0
...
To access the program in
GNOME after install use;
Applications -> Accessories -> Furious ISO
Mount
After the program is installed to associate the
(.iso) ISO
files, to permanently be opened with
furiusisomount roll
over the .iso file and choose
Open With -> Other Application
-> (Use a custom command) -> furiusisomount
2. Mount ISO Files in KDE Graphical Environment with
AcetoneISO
AcetoneISO is build on top of KDE's QT library and isway
more feature rich than
furiousisomount.
Installing
AcetoneISO Ubuntu and Debian is done with:
debian:~# apt-get install acetoneiso
The following NEW packages will be installed:
acetoneiso gnupg-agent gnupg2 libksba8 pinentry-gtk2
pinentry-qt4
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not
upgraded.
Need to get 3,963 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,974 kB of additional disk space will be
used.
...
AcetoneISO supports:
- conversion between different ISO formats
- burn images to disc
- split ISO image volumes
- encrypt images
- extract password protected files
Complete list of the rich functionality AcetoneISO offers is to be
found on
http://www.acetoneteam.org/viewpage.php?page_id=6
To start the program via the GNOME menus use;
Applications -> Accessories -> Sound & Video ->
AcetoneISO
I personally don't like AcetoneISO as I'm not a KDE user and
I see the functionality this program offers as to rich and mostly
unnecessery for the simple purpose of mounting an ISO.
3. Mount ISO image files using the mount command
If you're a console guy and still prefer mounting ISO with the
mount command instead of using fancy gui stuff use:
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/binary/someiso.iso
/home/username/Iso_Directory_Name