Comments on: What is a .ISO file?

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:33:52 +0000

doh, replace /dev/hda or whatever with your path and filename instead.

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:27:44 +0000

Under a base install of linux you can mount iso’s like any other media using mount -t auto /dev/hda(1) -o loop /mnt/cdrom(2)

1) can also be /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd depending on your flavor of linux
2) can be mounted anywhere really, just mkdir /dir/dirname and replace /mnt/cdrom with your new folder.

you’ll only run into failures if your kernel wasn’t compiled with iso9660 or udf support.

By: Of Zen and Computing

Of Zen and Computing — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:39:28 +0000

To mount a drive means to make its file system available to your computer. Here is a good explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_(computing)

By: josh

josh — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:04:34 +0000

and what is* mounting

By: josh

josh — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:02:56 +0000

could you please tell me what mounting it does ?
and what it mounting

By: Of Zen and Computing

Of Zen and Computing — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:54:51 +0000

The last paragraph of this article discusses three different programs for burning and mounting ISO images.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:05:13 +0000

hi mate can u please tell me how to mount an iso image and what it does

By: eyon

eyon — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:08:58 +0000

thats for teaching me about iso

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