Date: 2010nov2 OS: Linux Q. How do I mount a .iso image without burning a CD-ROM ? A. If your file is /tmp/myfile.iso First, become root. You first need to make a "mount point" which is just an empty directory. The /mnt folder is a good place for this:

mkdir /mnt/myfile

Now you can mount it:

mount -o loop -t iso9660 /tmp/myfile.iso /mnt/myfile

This is called a "loopback" mount and very cool in my opinion. Use it like this:

cd /mnt/myfile ls

When you are done unmount as follows:

umount /mnt/myfile