Hi,

I have made an iso of a CD using K3b (say, disc1.iso). Frequently, I prefer to keep the ISO in my harddisk (simply because I'm running out of empty CDs)

Is there any image-drive utility in linux? Just like that of Nero's, it really comes in handy.

Cheers.

If you mean that you have an ISO format image file on your disk and you want to mount it you are in luck. If the ISO file is named my.iso and you want to mount it on /mnt then do this:

mount -o loop my.iso /mnt

This uses a loop device to take the place of a hardware device. You (probably) have to be root do perform the mount.

More information is available at the very bottom of the man page for the mount command.

omg that is soo cool! yet another example of a simple task for linux that windoze will never be able to do!

Sorry for being that so thick skulled, but I have to ask: If I mount an .iso image running
mount -o loop my.iso /mnt
will it behave like a physical drive, like Daemon Tools in Win?
I mean- If I mount an .iso image of a DVD using mount -o loop, will the computer "think" that it has a real DVD in a physical DVD drive?
Well, ok, I'm going to say it as it is; can I play an X-Plane image and get the computer to beilive that the DVD is actually in the drive?
Or would I still need a no-dvd patch?

And why dont I burn the DVD image? -Because- I dont have a DVD burner :-(