How to mount images (ISO, MDF, etc.)

Have you ever needed to mount an ISO, IMG, BIN, NRG or MDF image, among others? Well, in this post I present several tools to be able to do the same as you did in Win with Alcohol 120%, PowerISO, etc. We will start by seeing how to mount an ISO - the most common format - from the terminal and then we will analyze the characteristics of the different visual tools available for Linux.

How to mount an ISO image from the terminal

We can mount an ISO disk image (.iso) without having to save it, following these steps:

• We create a directory (mount point) where to mount the image:

sudo mkdir / media / iso

• We load the loop module to the kernel, if it was not loaded yet:

sudo modprobe loop

• We enter the folder containing the image (in our case / home / user):

cd / home / user

• We mount the image:

sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop file.iso / media / iso

This indicates that the content of the «file.iso» will be mounted inside the directory /media/iso.

To unmount the image:

sudo umount / media / iso

GMountISO

Gmount ISO is a graphical application that helps us to easily mount ISO images, as if they were on a CD / DVD on our machine. As you can see in the screenshot, it is a very simple and easy-to-use tool, so there is little to say.

sudo apt-get install gmountiso

Gisomount

gISOMount is another graphical alternative to using the console to mount ISO CD / DVD images. It also allows:

• Calculation of the MD5 of the image
• Image Burn Wizard
• Browse image content

sudo apt-get install gisomount

Furius the ISO mount

Furius ISO Mount allows us to mount and unmount ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG images in an intuitive and simple way to be able to use them without burning a CD / DVD.

Other features:

• It is very light, it hardly consumes resources.
• Automatically mounts ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG image files.
• Automatically creates a mount point in the / home folder.
• Automatic disassembly of images.
• Unmounting also removes the mount point leaving / home in the previous state.
• Save a history with the last 10 images mounted.
• Possibility of mounting multiple images.
• Burn ISO and IMG images to optical discs.
• Generates the necessary commands if you want to mount or unmount images manually.
• Generates MD5 and SHA1 checksums;

sudo apt-get install furiusisomount

AcetoneISO

AcetoneISO it is "a CD and DVD image manipulator for Linux", but it can actually do a lot more:

• Erase rewritable CD / DVD.
• Assemble and disassemble ISO and MDF.
• Burn ISO, CUE, TOC images directly to K3B.
• Ability to create an ISO from folder and CD / DVD.
• Convert BIN / CUE, MDF, NRG, CCD / IMG, CDI, XBOX, B5I / BWI, PDI to ISO.
• Check md5sum from image files and generate an md5sum file from ISO.
• Divide ISOs into smaller files leaving the user to choose the dimension that best suits them.

sudo apt-get install acetoneiso