HOWTO: Nautilus Script to mount .iso files

[pingpongboss]

I tried just about every other script on this forum to do this, and Rob, yours is the only one that actually worked first time. Many thanks.

same for me. I love how i can just run the same script on the desktop icon and have it unmount.

[Nehvrook]

Great script animacide, works a treat. Thanks

[brian.freelancer]

I've been running around the internet for a solution to this and I finally found one that worked (for me)

The thing is made for Debian, though and, as a no0b, about the only thing I know is that Ubuntu is based on Debian. <correct the n0ob if necessary>

http://www.debianadmin.com/mount-and...ning-them.html

I found a bit of a problem with this line, though:

“sudo mv ~/mount-iso ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/”

Which should probably be:

“sudo mv ~/mount.sh ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/”

hmmm...maybe I was meant to change the filename...anyway, it worked! woohoo! I hope this helps someone.

[thexfactor_sid]

an awesome one man.!

[slasherx2]

Haha, awesome script, will save me remembering the full command to mount an ISO. Thanks

[hotdoog]

Hi, this (original script) didn't work for me at first. Before I read the entire thread I hacked something together that worked better for me - using pushd and popd, plus mkdir -p and rmdir -p so the directories worked. Then I discovered that others had better solutions already. I haven't tested those yet, but I'll probably get the one that can read space characters etc...

Anyways the biggest problem i was having that the script wasn't showing in the nautilus scripts menu. This was weird because I had the -x permissions correctly set.

Anyways, my edited scripts showed up there but not the original. My only guess about the change was that the 2nd line with the # -then blank- was changed to #with my notes in it. Could it be the # -blank- line was screwing it up?

I'm running dapper BTW, perhaps that is a bug to dapper?

[Gen2ly]

I liked engla's idea, just using it as a bash script.

#!/bin/bash
#
# nautilus-mount-iso

gksudo -k /bin/echo "got r00t?"

if sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 "$*" /media/iso; then
    echo "mounted"
    nautilus /media/iso; else
    echo "mount error"
fi

Associate the bash script to the regular .iso and now just double-clicking will open it.

[franzag]

nice scripts for mount DVD data, i discover that totem actually support DVD Isos!, just left click open with totem, and play lol
Ubuntu 7.10

[altonbr]

I've added the scripts to the specified location and then ran

$ killall nautilus

but the "scripts" menu still doesn't come up on a right-click. What am I doing wrong?

Edit: I didn't make them executable. Sorry.

[LordKelvan]

Hi:

I would just like to say thanks to all the people who posted different versions of the scripts. In particular, thanks to:

1. animacide (original creator)
2. Nightwish (added the ability to extract only the filename, which was something I wanted to do but my newbness prevented)
3. chollis888 (added the ability to remove the ".iso" from the mount directory, which was something I wanted to do, but again my newbness prevented)

I have one small request that would make this solution even more perfect: is it possible to have a menu entry which automatically changes from "mount" to "unmount" depending on whether you have previously mounted the ISO?

Edit: I previously mentioned that I was adding the scripts as custom commands under the "Open With..." submenu because I wanted the scripts to appear for ISO files only. Today, I found out that Nautilus -Actions allows for the same behaviour. When you are adding a new action, you can specify the conditions under which your action will appear in the context menu (i.e. the menu that appears when you right-click something). You can do it based on filename (e.g., "*.iso" for our particular case) or on MIME type (e.g., "application/x-cd-image" for our particular case). Of course, my original request still stands.