MOUNTING AN ISO IMAGE WITHOUT A DVD DRIVE

Lets suppose you have aDVD image file of a distro and you want to extract a few files from it, but you either do not have a DVD to burn the image or you do not want to waste a blank DVD.

Here's how you can mount an ISO image as a filesystem.


First, make a directory that will be mount point for the ISO image:

# mkdir /iso0

# mount -o loop -t iso9660 /FC@-i386-DVD.iso /iso0

or to mount automatically at boot( premamemt mounting), add the following to "/etc/fstab".

/FC2-i386-DVD.iso /iso0         iso9660       rw,loop      0 0