Ubuntu: How to Mount and Unmount ISO Files
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Linux An ISO file is an image of a CD or DVD. You can access the files contained within the ISO (without installing any software or having to burn the image to disc) by mounting the image and unmount the image when you are done with it. Here’s how:
1. Open a terminal window.
2. You will need to create a new directory for your ISO image. Execute the following command in your terminal window:sudo mkdir /media/iso
3. Now execute this command to mount the ISO image:sudo mount -o loop /home/shamanstears/Documents/test.iso
Make sure to change the path in the above command to the path of the desired ISO file.
4. Close the terminal window.
5. Go to the Ubuntu Main Menu.
6. Click Places and select iso.
7. The file browser will open, displaying the contents of the ISO image.
To unmount the file, use this command in a terminal window:sudo umount /media/iso/
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overclucker said on November 3, 2008
when i do that, i get the message: mount: can’t find /path/to/iso in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab,
instead i issue this:
sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/iso /path/to/dir
which doesn’t rely on any auto mounting, or mapping extras that not all might have
JL said on November 6, 2008
The instructions are missing the mounting point. The correct command is:
sudo mount -o loop /home/shamanstears/Documents/test.iso /media/iso
deewanagan said on December 28, 2008
tank u for this how to,i think in order to mount we should specify the folder on which we want to mount the .iso file. so the mount command should look like this :
“sudo mount -o loop /home/shamanstears/Documents/test.iso /media/iso”
Vlad003 said on May 3, 2009
Is there any possible way to do this in a non-root account. I want to be able to unmount the iso from the icon it creates on the desktop. I can mount cds and usb drives in my non-root account but iso’s need root?
Dracu@l said on May 7, 2009
I only get up options for the mount function :(
running ubuntu 9.04
Anonymous said on November 23, 2009
Brasero did two files from my audio CD:
cd.toc
cd
Now I’ve lost my original CD and need to grab mp3 files from my audio. How can I do it without burning?
I tried in this way:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 /home/x/cd.toc /media/cd2
But I get the following responce:
“wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error”
Reed G said on November 5, 2010
To get mp3 from cd.toc and cd files, burn them to CD then you can use one of the extractors like Ripper-X or somthing similar. I was told that yYou must have the original source (record, tape, or cd) to have an MP3 back-up.
Josh said on March 2, 2011
It is stated above that you need to change the path to the iso. READ PEOPLE READ.
Tulle Rönnmyr said on June 13, 2011
Worked for me, after a bit of tweaking. As deewanagan said above, you need to specify the /media/iso folder, and you have to remember that no spaces are allowed in the folder names (change them to an underscore) and that uppercase letters needs to stay that way.