Many times I happened to download an ISO image of either a Linux distro or any video game and I do not want to burn a CD, because after strike with a TV box full of burnt cd I did not serve ;-) .

For this purpose we can use on Windows applications such as Daemon Tools to mount the image of any CD or DVD to the hard disk and also test the content. This feature of using or creating a virtual cd-rom is already included in all recent Linux kernel.

Mounting the ISO

Taking into account that we have a distribution date with kernel 2.6.x, proceed to mount ISO images 


  deathbian: ~ # mkdir / media / isoimage 
  deathbian: ~ # mount-o loop-t iso9660 debian-sid.iso / media / isoimage /


Now we know how to mount iso images or bins in linux. In the above example image files can be accessed in the directory / media / ISO /.

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