How to mount an ISO

[shag00]

Is K3B the software to mount an ISO file? If not, is there a way to mount an ISO in Kubuntu? I opened an ISO with K3B and there are heaps of options except plain old mount.

[Snowhog]

See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/ISOBoot for help.

[vinnywright]

Is K3B the software to mount an ISO file? If not, is there a way to mount an ISO in Kubuntu? I opened an ISO with K3B and there are heaps of options except plain old mount.

what are you trying to do ?

VINNY

[jlittle]

If you just want to see what's in the iso, double click it in dolphin and ark will open it (assuming the default file association for isos; if something else, say k3b, opens it, in dolphin right click it and choose ark).

If you want to see and explore it in dolphin, or read the data in other programs, without extracting from the iso, you could, say, in a konsole:

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/iso
sudo mount -o ro [I]/path/to/iso/somefile.iso[/I] /mnt/iso

(That "-o ro" is not necessary, but without it there's a warning about it being read only.)

[shag00]

Thanks for the replies guys though it seems I am not very good at asking questions. What i want to do is mount an ISO in a daemon (virtual DVD drive) on my machine.

What I was looking for was a GUI version of what @jlittle suggested. From google I found this site https://www.maketecheasier.com/mount-iso-file-linux/ with this nifty graphic:


Now in Kubuntu there does not seem to be an equivalent option in the right click menu. I know I can use a new software to do this but thought I would explore built-in options first.

Regards,

[Snowhog]

So, did you try double-clicking the .iso file from within Dolphin, as jlittle pointed out?

[shag00]

Ark wants to extract the files which is not what I want to do. i want to mount the ISO so it is accessible to other programs.

[Snowhog]

Then follow his CLI method.

[jlittle]

(I'm sorry my brain did not intuit the obvious when I sent my previous reply. That obviousness just came to me, and I investigated a little, and so...)

It sounds like you want a fuser mount to the iso, from dolphin. There is a package in the repos to do just that for kde 4, and it seems to work if the files are copied to the right place for KDE plasma. Here's what I did:

• Installed kde-service-menu-fuseiso using muon. The "fuseiso" package I had already; if you don't, it will be installed as a dependency.
• Created the directory kservices5 in my ~/.local/share, and the directory ServiceMenus in that. If you already have these, all the better.
• Copied the fuseiso* files from /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ to ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus.
• Ran kbuildsycoca5 in a konsole. Alternatively, you could log out and back in.

Expressed as shell commands; using these would surely have been quicker:

$ sudo apt install kde-service-menu-fuseiso
$ mkdir -p ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus
$ cp /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/fuseiso* ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus
$ kbuildsycoca5

Then, I started a new dolphin, right clicked an iso, moused over Actions, and saw the attached image. I Chose mount and a new dolphin window opened showing the contents of the iso.

That service menu mounts the iso in ~/media, and always opens a new dolphin window. If that's inconvenient you could edit the .desktop file to remove the kde-open statement.

[shag00]

@jlittle, thanks for that, I now get the right click menu with the mount/unmount option. Why this is not in the standard release is quite surprising.

[shag00]

Ark wants to extract the files which is not what I want to do. i want to mount the ISO so it is accessible to other programs.
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Then follow his CLI method.

Snowdog, I really appreciate that you take the time to answer queries on this board but it serves no useful purpose to advise people to do something contrary to their specifically requested request. In this case I realise that my initial question was perhaps not as clear as it might have been so I addressed that with more information including links and diagrams which is demonstrably able to be clearly understood. If you don't know the answer it would be appreciated if you would just say nothing as opposed to advice explicitly contrary to what was requested.

Please take this as friendly advice and not an invitation to hostilities.

Regards,

[Snowhog]

Please take this as friendly advice and not an invitation to hostilities.

Regards,

I never take criticism as an invitation to hostilities.

[shag00]

Outstanding.