Like .NRG an .ISO file contains the image of a disk. It means that it contains all the files and folders that were on that disk. It is much similar to zip or cab file contains a collection of files and folders. The real difference is that an iso is a byte-for-byte copy of the low-level data actually stored on a disk.
These .ISO file are supported by all popular operating systems which include windows and all flavors of LINUX.
A normal user can open .ISO files in windows but we would like to explain how to open .ISO files in LINUX. This helps you to avoid wasting time to burn these images, linux provide a way to mount these iso image file and let you access the files in the iso image directly.
How to Mount .ISO Image Files in LINUX
All you have to do is to follow these simple steps:
1) Before you start to mount your iso image, you need to make sure that the folder /mnt/isoimage is available
Even if /mnt/isoimage is not available you can create one using command below:-
#mkdir /mnt/isoimage
2) Once isoimage directory is available, you have to use the command below to mount your iso image
# mount -o loop -t iso9660 centos-5.0.iso /mnt/isoimage/
3) Now you have just mounted your iso image file to /mnt/isoimage successfully. To access your iso image files, go to /mnt/isoimage
4) After you have finished your work we recommend to unmount the .ISO file.
You can do this by using the below command
# umount /mnt/isoimage
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