HOWTO: Nautilus Script to mount .iso files

[bandaidsrcool]

how about.. for the super newbs.. someone makes a 'click here' button?
maybe right clicking & having the option to mount? i cant make sense of natalus junk & ubuntu should be more advanced than windows, not more of a pain. (not everyone wants to spend 2hrs learning how to install something)
~curious if ubuntu is just another way of making ppl *eat* countless hours.

[dyous87]

I just found this script looking for a way to mount/ unmount .iso's without having to go manually through the command line every time. Thanks a lot, it works great and makes life much easier!

David

[altonbr]

I just found this script looking for a way to mount/ unmount .iso's without having to go manually through the command line every time. Thanks a lot, it works great and makes life much easier!

David

There is a program called 'archive mounter' in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid that has the exact same qualities as this script. It should appear when you right-click an ISO file.

[dyous87]

Thank you!! That was dumb of me, I never even noticed it was there!

David

[phoenix81000]

I tried the 8.10 mount script and it did not let me execute an .exe which was on the .iso disc.. tried it with this script (from 1st post) and worked perfectly.

Iso was located in /media/disk/downs which is defiantly not my ~

[altonbr]

I tried the 8.10 mount script and it did not let me execute an .exe which was on the .iso disc.. tried it with this script (from 1st post) and worked perfectly.

Iso was located in /media/disk/downs which is defiantly not my ~

Have you ran the file through the terminal?
aka

wine /media/disk/downs/file.exe

Maybe the file doesn't run through whatever version of wine you have?

[SentientFluid]

if sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 "$*" /media/"$*"

In the mount script I would recommend changing "iso9660" to "auto", like this:

if sudo mount -o loop -t auto "$*" /media/"$*"

The script wasn't able to mount an .iso that was ISO-13346 until I made that change. Still seems to work fine for everything else.

[wolfyking2]

Thank you very much for this script

[dreamcarrior]

I followed the instruction to place the script in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts, but it does not work. Every time I got the zenity to show "Cannot Mount xxxxx.iso"

I separately execute the commands in the script, and I found that gksudo is not recognized.
sudo mount works, and I could mount the iso file. However, when put together as a script, it does not work. Does anyone know what is going on?

I have Gnome Desktop under Fedora Core 10. But I don't think there is much difference between Fedora and Ubuntu in terms of the automount script.

The code I used.

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

# gksudo -u root -k /bin/echo "got r00t?"

mkdir ~/media/"$*"

if sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 "$*" ~/media/"$*"
then
        if zenity --question --title "ISO Mounter" --text "$* Successfully Mounted.

        Open Volume?"
        then
                nautilus ~/media/"$*" --no-desktop
        fi
        exit 0
else
        rmdir ~/media/"$*"
        zenity --error --title "ISO Mounter" --text "Cannot mount $*!"
        exit 1
fi

[Levo]

Nice script, thanks. I have made some improvements to it, I may post it later.