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How to Mount an ISO Images in Linux (openSUSE)

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I’m sure by now everyone has heard of an ISO image. But some may not know that with Linux you can mount it quite easily without burning the image to a CD.

This is actually made possible by an option of the mount command, if you haven’t used the mount command simply type:

man mount

To find out some of its uses (please spare the obvious jokes from that command).

The option of mount that allows us to mount an iso is the loop option. Loop will actually create a device in /dev/loopX for the mounted iso.

I’ll stop the blabbering and give you the command to mount an iso image using the mount command:

sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 /location/of/filename.iso /mnt/iso

For the above command to work, I would have to have a directory in /mnt called iso, which can be made by running

sudo mkdir /mnt/iso

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I think my next set of writings will be around the usage of RPM.. Or maybe just make a single comprehensive RPM usage list.

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