How to : Iso Mounter! (mount *.iso)

[UK-Wobbie]

Hello all i been looking for some good ISO Image mounters to mount some ISO game files of mine.. And i seen this one!

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

Am going to put this all down.. Because the guy who made that topic on that site did not put it in right!
It did not work.


Right where to start?

You have to download 2 files what are called "mount" and "unmount"...
You can get this from the site link at the top or here.

mount.sh - unmount.sh

Save the 2 files on to your desktop.
And here are the commands for Terminal... Put your user name in where is says user name.



sudo chmod +x /home/USER NAME/Desktop/mount.sh

sudo chmod +x /home/USER NAME/Desktop/unmount.sh



This is for changing the permissions!


Then what we do is put this in... Using the same user name in user name!



sudo mv /home/USER NAME/Desktop/mount.sh ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/

sudo mv /home/USER NAME/Desktop/unmount.sh ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/



This is for setting all of it up and moving "mount" and "unmount" In to the setup folder.


Thats it all done

Right click on a ISO and go to scripts you will see in scripts "mount" and "unmount"... When you click on mount it will ask for your password put it in and click on ok!

Then when that is all done you will see a message saying
"Successfully mounted" click ok.

Now it will open a drive.. In the drive will be your files!

And a drive icon will be on your desktop.

In your system computer folder will be a drive icon to!


The drive can play some Computer ISO games for Wine to play!


For more info go to -> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/mount-and-...ning-them.html

[shoaibi]

great!!!!

[shoaibi]

I tried this for a ISO file that did have spaces in the file name, is that matters, and it gave me this on mount:

ISO Mounter
e /media/sda5/Academics/Co-Curricular/Video Lectures/Linux tutorial/Shell
Fundamentals.iso
<OK>


and then


ISO Mounter
Cannot mount !
<OK>


can you tell me why?

[danevans29]

Thanks for the script, however I'm getting the same error as shoaibi. Where are we going wrong?

[rbmorse]

If your filename has spaces (bad practice in general) it needs to be enclosed in " marks. In this case it is probably easier to rename the .iso file to something without spaces.

[Roobin]

I tried Gmount-Iso...and didn't like the French. Now I use AcetoneISO and it works really well!

[Keith Hedger]

Put these two files in your nautilus scripts folder ie:
/home/YOURUSERNAME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
change the password in them (or dont use sudo use gksudo)
set the exec flag and then just right click on an iso to mount it and right click on the desktop icon to unmount it

[bodhi.zazen]

I tried this for a ISO file that did have spaces in the file name, is that matters, and it gave me this on mount:

ISO Mounter
e /media/sda5/Academics/Co-Curricular/Video Lectures/Linux tutorial/Shell
Fundamentals.iso
<OK>


and then


ISO Mounter
Cannot mount !
<OK>


can you tell me why?

he he he ...

that is why you should quote your variables in bash scripts.

If the variable is embeded in text, use brackets.

echo /media/"${i}"

The "$" character introduces parameter expansion, command substitution, or arithmetic expansion. The parameter name or symbol to be expanded may be enclosed in braces, which are optional but serve to protect the variable to be expanded from characters immediately following it which could be interpreted as part of the name.

so ...

#!/bin/bash

PASS="YOUR PASSWORD"
echo "$PASS" | sudo -S mkdir /media/"${1}"
echo "$PASS" | sudo -S mount -o loop "${1}" /media/"${1}"

In addition , you need to quote or escape the spaces if you run that script from the command line :

bodhi@host:~/test$ ls
script

bodhi@host:~/test$ sh script iso with spaces.iso
bodhi@host:~/test$ ls
iso script

bodhi@host:~/test$ rm -rf iso/

bodhi@host:~/test$ sh script "iso with spaces.iso"
bodhi@host:~/test$ ls
iso with spaces.iso script

bodhi@host:~/test$

[bluemech]

Wow this works really well. Don't need a big interface like AcetoneISO when I can do it like this.

Thanks!

[Keith Hedger]

brackets are only needed when there may be confusion about the variable name ie:

avar="some data "

echo $avarsomeotherdata

would not work (theres no variable called avarsomeotherdata)
so echo ${avar}someotherdata
would produce "some data someotherdata"
You also need bracets when string slicing
so "${1}" /media/"${1}" as above does no harm but is redundant
as "$1" /media/"$1" does not cause any variable name confusion