Get via App Store Read this post in our app!

How to mount an ISO file?

I'm running into trouble trying to mount a large iso:

Can you tell me how I should do it?

11 Answers

Try mounting it using a GUI.

Navigate to the *.iso file using a file manager, then Right click -> Open with Archive Mounter .

Or you can install the Furius ISO Mount. It is available in the Ubuntu Software Center:

Here are some screenshots:

Maybe, instead of installing additional software, you can use what the system has to this end:

Create a directory to serve as the mount location:

Mount the ISO in the target directory:

On your desktop will appear the mounted ISO.

I really like Furius ISO Mount, it's a simple application for mounting ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NG files.

• Automatically Mounts ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Image Files.


• Automatically creates a mount point in your home directory.


• Automatically Unmounts the Image files.


• Automatically removes the mount directory to return your home directory to its previous state.


• Automatically saves the history of the last 10 images mounted.


• Mounts multiple images.


• Burn ISO and IMG Files to optical disk.


• Generate Md5 and SHA1 checksums.


• Automatically retrieves any previously unmounted images.


• Automatically generates a log file of all commands needed to mount and unmount images manually.


• Localizable (currently Czech, Danish, French, Hungarian, Italian, German, Polish, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish are available.

If 5 stars from 77 ratings is enough to convince you open up your Ubuntu Software Manager and search for Furius ISO Mount.

I'm Assuming your iso file name is matlab2011a_64.iso in the folder /home/dev/Hämtningar/

You can do this to mount the iso file in /cdrom folder or create another folder and mount the iso file in it. I'm going to create a separate folder in your home directory. Open a terminal to do all these things

Create mount point

This will mount the iso file in the newly created folder named mount-point in your home.

Also note, You will be given a warning like mount: warning: /home/dev/mount-point seems to be mounted read-only , It is because the iso file always mounts as read-only. You can't write to the iso file. You should just ignore that message and proceed forward.

I found the easiest and fastest way to handle the ISO file in Ubuntu 14.04 was to right click on the ISO file, choose Disk Image Mounter and then simply proceed to the newly opened directory:

In case you don't have installed, you can use this command in terminal to install it:

You can quite easily mount an iso using command-line tools:

First create a directory to mount the iso in with:

(Usually the loop module that enables an iso type filesystem to be read is automatically added so you shouldn't need to run sudo modprobe loop .)

Now mount your iso by pointing mount to its location:

It will give you a warning about the iso being mounted read-only, but that is correct.

You can later unmount it with

There is a GUI tool built-in.

Run "Disks" from your dash. Then from "Disks" menu select "Attach disk image. ":

You can use ISO Master, a GUI utility similar to furiusisomount . Simply:

And then open your *.iso file with ISO Master from your preferred file manager.

From the website:

Use ISO Master to:

• Create or customise CD/DVD images


• Make Bootable CDs/DVDs

Basically, it allows you to add or remove files from the ISO image, then save the changes.

If you want to get read write permissions for copying files from the mounted ISO and do not want to install something else. Just go into terminal shell, navigate to whereever you mounted your ISO, such as:

Than copy the entire mounted directory somewhere else:

You could also use

Next view the contents

Mounting an iso file is simpler relative to installing it latter. Just to mention that if you want to install latest matlab versions in latest ubuntus, you do not need to mount it the iso, rather extract it there and proceed in installation after making the install and /matlab-extracted-folder/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/bin/java executables.

Tested on ubuntu 14.04 and matlab 2014a.

I found Gmount to be very simple to use for mounting. It has a vintage GUI that is very simple to use and straight to the point. gmount GUI

Install Gmount from the software center then launch it. You can then select your iso image file and choose a mount point where you want to launch the iso file from. You will be prompted for a root password in order to complete the action and thats it.