How to: Tips and Tricks

Easy mounting ISO images in Ubuntu

Gmount-iso is a small tool written using PyGTK and Glade. It allows you to easily mount your cd images. This is a frontend to the mount -o loop -t iso9660 foo.iso /mountpoint command.

To install open terminal and type the following command

sudo apt-get install gmountiso

The application is available from Applications > System Tools > Gmount-iso.

Once it opens, you can specify your .iso file and mountpoint, where you want to mount. Then click on the Mount button. If prompted, enter your password.

Gmount-iso

To unmount, just select your mount point from Mounted Images and click on Unmount.