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07-06-2004, 03:14 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: IITK
Posts: 4
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How to open/extract ISO file in Linux?
Hi everybody!
I am new to Linux. I have Fedora installed on my PC.
I wanted to install MatLab for Linux from an ISO file. Now from my previous experience of windows, I thought that mounting or extracting it into my HD will help. But I can find no way to do it
Please Help! I am stuck!!
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07-06-2004, 03:18 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: ~
Distribution: Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Solaris, DSL
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Hi there sattu!!!
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org. Yup, same rules for Windows applies here when dealing with ISO's. You've to mount them. But no worries, that's actually quite easy to do. Take a look at this tutorial:
http://www.cpqlinux.com/cdrw.html
to get the hang of creating, mounting and burning iso's in linux, among other fancy stuff.
Good luck! I hope you enjoy your stay here 
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07-06-2004, 03:19 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: north of 52, south of 54
Distribution: slackware 10.0
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simple:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso
(remember to create the directory /mnt/iso first)
Then browse to /mnt/iso and install
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07-06-2004, 03:23 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Germany
Distribution: Slackware, Gentoo, Fedora
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Hi sattu,
Now from my previous experience of windows, I thought that mounting or extracting it into my HD will help.
exactly
Code:
su
Password:
mkdir mountpoint
mount -o loop YourImage.iso mountpoint
ls mountpoint/
Become root, make a directory to see the files in, mount the image to this directory, see whats in there.
Be aware that rebooting will unmount everything you have not saved in your /etc/fstab file. You might want to copy the contents of the mount directory to your hard drive to be able to access them later without remounting.
Good luck,
- drowstar
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07-06-2004, 03:25 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Australia
Distribution: Mandriva/Slack - KDE
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You can burn the iso to a cd or...
mount it like:
mkdir /temp-mount-point
mount metlab-blah.iso /temp-mount-point -o loop
you can then cd to /temp-mount-point and get what's in the iso...
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1 members found this post helpful.
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07-06-2004, 03:51 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: IITK
Posts: 4
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09-19-2008, 09:49 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2008
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thank you,mrgrieves.this command is good.
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10-13-2011, 03:13 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2011
Posts: 1
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mount error
i give this error:
mount: /dev/loop0: can't read superblock
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10-13-2011, 03:25 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: /dev/null
Posts: 5,818
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hadisarabi
i give this error:
mount: /dev/loop0: can't read superblock
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Hello,
Due to this thread being so old, please search these forums first for an answer, and if not, then by all means create a new thread. For future reference, please do not dig up old threads.
Cheers,
Josh
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1 members found this post helpful.
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07-04-2015, 12:48 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2015
Location: Lebanon
Distribution: Linux Mint 17.2 Mate
Posts: 7
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Still working @2015
old thread.. but still working on linux mint 17.1 
i tried this one and it's working well
http://i59.tinypic.com/25an4lz.png
Code:
su
Password:
mkdir mountpoint
mount -o loop YourImage.iso mountpoint
ls mountpoint/
i wrote 2 wrong command.. they are in the pricture.. ignore them
Last edited by NHKomaiha; 07-04-2015 at 12:54 AM.
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