How to Mount ISO/MDF Images in Linux
Written by BinnyVA on May 21, 2007 – 12:51 pm -
The mount command in Linux is a very powerful command. It can be used to mount any thing from a Samba mount to a ISO image file. The ability of the mount command to read ISO files makes it very useful for me.
My brother has a habit of saving DVD films as a image file. I believe he uses Alcohol 120% to do this. If he wants to view the Film, he ‘mount’ this image using Daemon Tools. He uses windows to do this. After he is done, he hands me this image. I can mount this image without any special tools in Linux - I just need the mount command.
mount -t iso9660 -o loop <Image_File> <Mount_Point>
Mounting Example
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/binnyva/Films/300.iso /mnt/Image
The ‘-t’ option specifies the filetype - this is optional.
This command works with both ISO and MDF images.
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May 21st, 2007 at 12:53 pm
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July 11th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Just mounting the .mdf image as a iso9660 image didn’t work for me. I’ve used mdf2iso to convert it first.
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Is there any way to mount an nrg image? The above command is not working for me. Thanks.
October 24th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Try using AcetoneISO
January 18th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
can some one plz tell me how to mount an image using alcohol120? i dont have a clue im so confused email me at chatinggil101@hotmail.com
January 20th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
‘Try using AcetoneISO’
But AcetoneISO doesn’t work on Gnome - it’s only for KDE.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Just rename the file to .iso in stead of .nrg. That works fine!
Thanx for this tut. Really helped my out!
March 10th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Thanks for the tip I know the command in Linux is a strong one but never used it for image files before as I don’t use them often.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:51 am
after following above instruction i got this result ……plz help
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so