Linux Tip #4 : Virtual CD
Indeed sometime you have faced the situation that you have an ISO image and you want to use it as an actual CD but without burning it to a real CD. In windows you need to get some software to do that for you that usually create a virtual device etc.
In Linux you can do with a single line, mounting it to a folder.
Here's the command:
sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 CD_IMAGE.ISO /path/to/folder
You give it the ISO file name and the path to the folder where you want to access it and it's all done for you! No device naming (A: G: I:...) required, no max number of virtual CD-ROM devices, none. Just that simple.
Enjoy.
http://www.linuxhelp.net/linux_downloads/
8 comments:
If we are talking just about ISO files (not other CD images file types) you can always use programs like winRar to read the file directly without mounting it (on windows environment)
I think there is some stubborn programs that insist on using a CD device on windows, that can't be handled just by un-raring it.
Here the case is different, any program will see it as a CD device...
this link: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/CD_Image_Conversion
Shows how to convert from a lot of CD image formats to ISO, and these programs that does the conversion, run on Linux.
Thanks for the hint anyway :)
salamo 3lekom
i'm sorry for that
but i cann't do that i don't know where is the problem
i typed that command:
sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 AppDev - ASP.NET Using Visual C# 2005.ISO /mnt/ASP
but it didn't work right it gives me that:
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
mount --make-shared dir
mount --make-slave dir
mount --make-private dir
mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
mount --make-rshared dir
mount --make-rslave dir
mount --make-rprivate dir
mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .
thanks for any advice
salam
sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 'AppDev - ASP.NET Using Visual C# 2005.ISO' /mnt/ASP
You need to include the file name in quotes ( double or single quotes ) since it contains special characters like space, and dash. (space is the default splitter of command line parameters, you can precede it with backslash like this : AppDev\ -\ ASP.NET\ Using ......, dash represent the standard input file, I think you can precede it with back slash too. You precede them with backslash if you don't want to quote them)
A hint: if you are in the folder that contains the file, type the first few characters and press TAB it will autocomplete the file name correctly for you ( including the backslashes )
thanks for your help
it's working well now
i have problem with kind of virtual cd any one know about virtual cd and it's extention is *.vd4 it work only in windows and i want to convert it to iso but in linux any one can help me
http://www.virtualcd-online.com/
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