ISO mounting software

CT42

Hey, so I'm trying to figure out how to mount an image, I've looked in the forums and I've only found one post about it which claims that Solus has a program called "disk image mounter" pre-installed. I'm on the Plasma version of Solus, and right clicking doesn't give me the option to mount an image, checked the software center for it as well as just "image mounter" and nothing popped up.... I'd been using Daemon Tools Lite on Windows for years, and I went to alternativeto.net hoping to figure out what software to use, but most of the things it showed was discontinued, or only related to creating/burning ISOs, not mounting them.. anyone know what the best way to do this would be?

johano

CT42, You can use Gnome Disks to mount ISOs

Harvey

You do not need any additional software. On Linux you can mount an ISO in a similar (not exactly the same way) you can manually mount a storage device.

Example:
Create a mount point. Which is a folder from which the device or in this case ISO that you mount will be browseable from.

sudo mkdir /mnt/iso

Mount the ISO.
sudo mount -o loop /home/harvey/Downloads/whatever.iso /mnt/iso

You can now browse the contents by navigating to /mnt/iso

When you are finished you can unmount the ISO like so:
sudo umount /mnt/iso

Note that the ISO will be mounted read-only and rebooting or shutting down your system would automatically unmount the ISO and it will not automatically mount it again next boot. You would have to rerun the command to mount it again.

CT42

Harvey uhhh is there a non-CLI way of doing this.?

ED: I mean, that's simple enough and will work, but, yano.. would vastly prefer a GUI-based option, so I don't have to come back here and remember what the command is (I'm trying to learn the various commands, but, yano... it's a process..)

CT42

johano I'm using Plasma which is KDE, so I can't use GNOME Disk, right? I'm not sure if that's an option in KDE Partition Manager, as far as I can tell, that's only used for managing partitions (which, I mean, yeah, the name sorta implies lol..)

brent

CT42 I'd be shocked if you could not install (from software center) and use gnome-disks on plasma. that's the non-cli way.
(so much kde stuff works on budgie; would be surprised if it was not the other way around, as a non-plasma user)

WetGeek

brent so much kde stuff works on budgie

It's all running on the Linux kernel. The main problem when you install apps that were built for a different software family is the number of dependencies you might need to get that aren't already on your machine. If storage is an issue for you, adding 20 or 30 new dependencies could make it a bad idea.

Harvey

I do not know any other GUI tools to do it. You can use gnome-disks on plasma if you wish. It works I just tested it.

CT42

Harvey Sweet! I was thinking GNOME and KDE were incompatible with each other, but I'll set that up and see if that works! 😃

Axios

I Havent used mate or plasma but if a person is using dolphin there use to be a plugin that would mount and do the iso stuff. (just info)

CT42

Axios I'd love to know what that plug in is, I believe that's the "disk image mounter" I'd heard about, but I'm not sure if I can/how to set that up, which is a shame. It's supposedly just built into most OSes (I did find a post from 2017 about someone not having it after a fresh install of Mint, but I'm not comfortable attempting to follow their steps, since I'm not experienced enough to know what's OS specific vs program specific... If that makes sense..)

CT42

Cool, GNOME Disks worked!

brent

WetGeek oh yes. learned 2 weeks ago when I installed two k-apps I liked. come update time, it seemed my update was doubled.
your point is very valid, thought. Having the room was not the issue, but I thought the extra packages excessive so I removed programs and worked around them.