Mounting ISO Files

Introduction

• An iso image is an image of a CD or DVD disk that can be stored on your computer and used to write to a new disk. It is a simple process to mount an iso image under Ubuntu.

Instructions

• The default mount point under linux is under /media. To mount an iso file here do the following:

  sudo mkdir /media/cdimage
  sudo mount -o loop myfile.iso /media/cdimage

  Where myfile.iso is replaced with the file you want to mount. To mount the image so that it can be written to do the following instead:

  sudo mkdir /media/cdimage
  sudo mount -o rw,loop myfile.iso /media/cdimage

  To unmount the image do this:

  sudo umount /media/cdimage
  rm -R /media/cdimage

Other Formats

• Other formats of CD or DVD images can be converted to iso and then mounted as above.

• Nero image (.nrg) files can either be converted to iso using nrg2iso or mounted directly using mount.

  • To mount using mount:

    sudo mkdir /media/cdimage
    sudo mount -o loop,offset=307200 myfile.iso /media/cdimage

  • To install nrg2iso:

    sudo apt-get install nrg2iso

  • To convert to iso using nrg2iso:

    nrg2iso myfile.nrg myfile.iso

• Cue/Bin image (.cue/.bin) files must be converted. This can be done using bchunk.

  • To install bchunk:

    sudo apt-get install bchunk

  • To convert to iso using bchunk:

    bchunk myfile.bin myfile.cue myfile.iso

• Clone CD (.ccd) files must be converted. This can be done using ccd2iso. The package for this program is extremely unstable and has been taken from the Ubuntu forums http://www.ubuntuforums.org. It is also only packaged for Pentium (i386) systems. You can also compile from the source using the guide on ManageDiscImages.

  • To install ccd2iso download the package http://rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable/ccd2iso_0.2-0.1_i386.deb. Then install the package:

    sudo dpkg -i ccd2iso_0.2-0.1_i386.deb

  • To convert to iso using ccd2iso

    ccd2iso myfile.ccd myfile.iso

• Alcohol 120% image (.mdf) files can either be converted to iso using mdf2iso or mounted directly using mount.

  • To mount using mount:

    sudo mkdir /media/cdimage
    sudo mount -o loop=/dev/loop0 myfile.iso /media/cdimage

  • To install mdf2iso:

    sudo apt-get install mdf2iso

  • To convert to iso using mdf2iso:

    mdf2iso myfile.mdf myfile.iso

• A couple of other image formats can be found on the help page ManageDiscImages.

Other Options

• cdemu is a kernel module for mounting Cue/Bin files directly. To install it you would have to install linux-headers, compile the module and modprobe it. This is out of the scope of this page. There is a script under development in the Ubuntu forums for automating the building of cdemu http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=149963. (Use this at your own risk.)

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