HOWTO: Nautilus Script to mount .iso files

Nice scripts indeed. This is what called vivid community.

However my suggestion is to first try out solutions already embeded in your Ubuntu before creating new scripts, for something which has already been done and is supported.
The bash scripts are great if you want to mount/unmount from command line, but if all you need is to have this in nautilus, it could be not worth the hassle.

As someone has already written, since 8.10 you can right click on image file and open it with "archive mounter". If you need something more you could go with gisomounter or cdemu.

@qva5,

The main problem with archive mounter is that it doesn't result in a proper path, therefore nothing can be excecuted.

CDEmu isn't on the main repositories and gISOmounter produces errors when run as user.

The script is an elegant and compact solution, besides not having any dependencies.

@all,

Since most ISOs have long names and rarely more than one file needs to be mounted at the same time, I changed the script a little bit the scripts.

ISO Mount:

Code:

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#!/bin/bash

gksudo mkdir /media/ISO

if sudo mount -o loop,user,uid=1000,gid=100 -t auto "$*" /media/ISO
then
        if zenity --question --title "ISO Mounter" --text "$* Successfully Mounted.
       
Open Volume?"
        then
                nautilus /media/ISO --no-desktop
        fi
        exit 0
else
        sudo rmdir /media/ISO
        zenity --error --title "ISO Mounter" --text "Cannot mount $*!"
        exit 1
fi

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Also with this script the volume is user manageable, meaning that you can unmount it just by right-clicking on the volume icon and selecting 'unmount', without the need for a specific script!

Regards,
Eduardo Ristow

Quote:

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Originally Posted by RattyMan

This doesn't work with any ISO file that is outside your home directory, other than that, great script

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I just tried the scripts and it DOES work outside the home as well.

Cheers

Great little script! thank you very much....：P