So, you’ve recently downloaded an ISO disc image in Ubuntu and want a quick and easy method to mount it as a drive?
Simple. Locate the file within your file browser and give it a right-click, then from the pop-up menu click ‘Open with Archive Mounter’. Archive Mounter is a tool which mounts several types of disc images including ISO format as a virtual drive within the system. This work in a similar manner to Windows based disc image mounting tools such as Daemon tools.
Mounting an ISO disc image with the Ubuntu archive mounter
After clicking, and about a second or two delay, you will see a new icon displayed on the desktop, as shown below. This icon represents the mounted drive and the icon will be named the same as the mounted disk image to allow it to be easily identified.
Icon depicting the mounted disc ISO image as a virtual drive
Hope this helps people wishing to quickly and easily mount disc images in Ubuntu. Of course, you can browse disc images via the ‘Archive Manager’ option within the need the mount the disc image first. Alternatively, you can, of course, burn the disc image via the disc burning software ‘Brasero’ which is installed by default in the most recent Ubuntu releases.
Enjoy!
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