http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/194/
[5716 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #194


[691 votes] Solution #2: "Mount Image" avaiable in Right-Click Menu


[-16 votes] Solution #3: Spruce up gisomount and extend


[0 votes] Solution #4: gmount-iso


[40 votes] Solution #6: Make it possible to mount ISO image from CLI w/o root access


[-71 votes] Solution #7: Solution #3: Mount it automatically once the user double-clicks the ISO file


[-12 votes] Solution #8: Okay, here it is :)


[-44 votes] Solution #9: Drag *.iso icon onto computer/desktop/places


]]> en-us Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:17:06 +0000 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:42:08 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/194/ I like how is done in MacOS. ]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:16:05 +0000
/usr/local/bin/isomnt
This bash script will mount or unmount an ISO file that you pass to it in the /media folder.
Example:
$-> isomnt myimage.iso
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#!/bin/bash
# ISO Mount/unmount Script
# Jeremy Pyne
# 01/09/2007
if [ -e "$*" ]; then
if [ -d /media/"$*" ]; then
echo "Unmounting '$*'..."
sudo umount -d /media/"$*"
sudo rmdir /media/"$*"
else
echo "Mounting '$*'..."
sudo mkdir /media/"$*"
sudo mount -o loop "$*" /media/"$*"
fi
else
echo "No image found to mount."
fi
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~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/(Un)Mount ISO
This Nautilus script will mount or unmount an iso file when you right-click->Scripts->Mount, again to the media folder.
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#!/bin/bash
# ISO Mount/unmount Script (Nautilus)
# Jeremy Pyne
# 01/09/2007
if [ -d /media/"$*" ]; then
gksudo ls /media
sudo umount -d /media/"$*"
sudo rmdir /media/"$*"
else
gksudo mkdir /media/"$*"
wd=$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI#file://
sudo mount -o loop "$wd/$*" /media/"$*"
fi
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Feel free to use and abuse these scripts :P]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:00:15 +0000
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FuseIso

It supports lots of different image formats.
Maybe this could be integrated into nautilus.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:14:34 +0000 so you should use this comand by choosing favorite aplication
(fakeroot/gksudo) mount 0 -o loop /media/iso
need an existing folder /media/iso]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:33:54 +0000
We have come a long way from just being a Debian branch.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:59:35 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:00:50 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:38:40 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:38:53 +0000 It would also be nice if you didn't need root privileges to do this, since you can open the file in Archive Manager anyway.
I'm not sure how stable the cdemu project is, but it would be nice to make use of that to mount other image formats besides .ISO as well.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:43:38 +0000
I do believe, however, that it is a must for ISO files to have a context (right-click) option to mount the image automagically.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:29:34 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:38:59 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:55:40 +0000

* mount it as a virtual optical drive
* open it in Archive Manager
* burn it to blank optical media

I believe options 1 and 2 are functionally the same for most users ("Hey, now I can browse the files."). Regardless, it should be trivial to change the default action.

How about asking the user the first time? Pop up a dialog asking:


"This file contains a [CD/DVD/Double-sided DVD/whatever, based on size] image. What should I do?

Pretend it's a real [CD/DVD/etc]
Open it in Archive Manager
Burn it to a real [CD/DVD/etc]

[] Always do this with [CDs/DVDs/etc] images. This setting can be changed later through ."


And of course an appropriate setting would be added in the UI. This would enable the user to, for instance, burn a CD but mount a DVD (assuming they have a combo drive).]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:06:45 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:10:47 +0000 http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/fuseisomount?content=46146

Since it is using fuseiso, it allows user ISO mounting without needing to sudo...]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:25:05 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:44:17 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:52:01 +0000

http://mundogeek.net/nautilus-scripts/#nautilus-mount-image]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:16:19 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:17:33 +0000
But one thing i am looking for is a "daemon tools" for linux.
It must support mdf files most importantly, as converting 4-7 gb images to iso format is not fun.

any other image format support will not hurt either.

]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:39:44 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:37:32 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:37:36 +0000 1. allowing to auto mount lets say inside /tmp and auto open file browser

Lets say we install gmount-iso open it then select 'allow automount' checkbox. After that whenever you right click on iso image and choose 'open in gmount-iso' gmount automatically mount in /tmp/isoname and show you files.

2. support for other formats]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:28:07 +0000
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=704350

I think it is certainly a very useful ability to be able to mount/unmount from the RMB menu.]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:24:31 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:14:08 +0000 Use Gmount-iso !!!!!!!
]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:10:54 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:10:23 +0000
This was requested last year in the gnome bugzilla, bug
442191, but it has received no response yet.

James
]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:44:35 +0000
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Besides, it's a lost of time doing it gnome way instead of general way, since the fix should then need to be ported to kubuntu, xubuntu, mythbuntu...]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:30:17 +0000 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:30:22 +0000 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:38:46 +0000
https://launchpad.net/nautilus-mount-image/

It is already in launchpad, I have tested and it work pretty fine, just right click, mount and you are ready to go, handled just like a pendrive.

Unmount when you don't want to use it and that's all, simple and could be easily added to the repositories, just a click away, I wouldn't bundle it with the default installation since not everybody want's to mount iso images.]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:31:33 +0000
The packages are already in REVU and have been worked on alot. So we can expect them to be in universe/multiverse by hardy+1 (intrepid?).]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:20:21 +0000 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:29:06 +0000 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:37:19 +0000
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=2278 (although I suspect icampana got it covered)]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:53:53 +0000
http://mundogeek.net/nautilus-scripts/#nautilus-mount-image]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:31:31 +0000 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:03:42 +0000
This might not be so important if we could just mount .bin files straight (perhaps with CDEmu), but even then it might have some utility.]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:09:51 +0000 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:45:32 +0000
* Double-click to mount, transforming the .iso file into a CD-drive icon

* Drag the .iso to the existing CD drive, initiating a burn]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:34:06 +0000
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>This sounds like a decent idea, but seriously, is this really a top issue? What fraction of users actually experience this, and would adding this feature really improve Ubuntu in the eyes of most users? I'm thinking this issue just got the benefit of a couple days on the "front page" at the very start, despite actually being a pretty minor improvement targeted to a very small set of users
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Well, check it out, (the votes) does not seem a very small set of users. Quiet a lot of people use .ISO images for mounting. I know I do almost all the time in Windows.
Virtual FS is no way to go, it is not really in the OS and only in the frontend and as Kubuntu User, you would have extra work porting it for me. Also, every program needs a VFS plugin to work with it (and many don't especially app xzy that is unique in providing functionality zyxy), so I am no fan of virtual file systems for that reason.
]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:41:20 +0000
1) More people have voted on it, period
2) Most people vote yes (and simply don't vote on the nos)

The reason (1) is true is because it's at the top of a bunch of lists, and thus just gets more visibility than hundreds of other ideas -- may of which probably affect more people in a more direct way.

Most importantly, it was at the top of the *only* list for the first days (weeks?) of Brainstorm existing, meaning that in the first days it had a huge visibility advantage over the other ideas, and thus was given an insurmountable lead in votes (ensuring it always appears at the top of lists, and always gets more votes, etc).

I think this is a serious problem that reduces the overall value of Brainstorm. If you agree (or don't), consider my ideas for how to improve it here:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/contributor/quinthar/]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:06:13 +0000 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:32:38 +0000
The user "pynej", author of the 2nd comment, should create a blueprint and attach it into this page.

Sorry if I made some mistakes with my (veeery) bad english.]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:01:16 +0000 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:35:01 +0000 The problem is this: inexperienced users don't know not even what is a mount point and how make it. For some applications is necessary to make it on /media/cdrom*, don't everybody know this and some applications can to give some problems.
gmountiso may be give an "automake cdrom mountpoint" (option enabled by default), it creates automatically the first /media/cdrom* available after the CD/DVD Unit/s installed on the system (fstab) and use it for mountpoint.
Or load the iso image by means of MTAB like an USB FLASH DEVICE or like others removable device.
Goodbye.]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 14:34:43 +0000
Working with disk image files in Ubuntu is a real PITA if you are unfamiliar with writing scripts or working with the shell. There really isn't any reason why we should have to go to the shell for something simple like mounting an image file.

A few have mentioned gmountiso as an option. The only problem with that is that gmountiso ONLY mounts .iso files, and ONLY comes in French. So unless you speak and read French fluently, it's useless. And if you need to mount something that isn't a .iso file, but is still an image, it's useless. So gmountiso is not really a viable option for the majority of Ubuntu users.

A simple right-click menu, as others have suggested, would be best. The choices of Open, Mount and Burn would also probably be the best options as well. Although having the popup menu choices after double-click would be a nice addition as well.]]> Mon, 12 May 2008 21:00:07 +0000 http://l0b0.net/blog/?p=117

This script works in the shell and Nautilus, handles multiple files at the same time, and creates symlinks to the mount points named after the ISO files in the same directory as the ISO files.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 15:22:00 +0000 the best would be a point in the popup-menu with the right-click on the image. ]]> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:24:28 +0000
A solution could be something like that with fuse iso]]> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:38:02 +0000
Also, i think using GVFS for this is a bad idea, as this should be environment independent.

Basically, implement it in nautilus so you can easily (un)mount an image by simply right clicking and choosing said option, which should be in the top level menu, not in the scripts submenu.]]> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:54:30 +0000
Some very basic use cases are impossible for most users, and time consuming for those command-line jockeys.

E.g. play a DVD iso in a media player - this takes ten minutes of mounting, and reconfiguring mplayer/xine/whatever to point /dev/dvd to somewhere else

This really should not require installing more apps, scripts, or command line. The words "quite simple" followed by some pasted shell script is completely unacceptable for >99.9% of the world's computer users.

]]> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:10:44 +0000 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:15:36 +0000
GNOME users have cdemu frontend on launchpad, and what about KDE users ?]]> Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:30:00 +0000 Open with "Archive Mounter". ]]> Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:44:17 +0000 In Intrepid you can mount ISO images by right clicking on the image and selecting "Open with..."-> Open with "Archive Mounter".

This doesn't work for me. File names look like "SETUP.EXE;1" instead of "Setup.exe" and "SETUP_EX.MAN;1" instead of "Setup.exe.manifest"]]> Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:51:31 +0000
Endolith : Your issue looks like bug 292963]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:00:58 +0000 This feature is now included in intrepid.

See comment on Launchpad. This is not enabled in Intrepid unless you go through the "Open with" menu, since it doesn't work with most apps.]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:20:41 +0000
That idea isnt included, is only partialy included, and that is big difference.

ISO is maybe popular, but also simplest CD Image format and in 99% dont works with game CD backups - and that is one of most importants reason to mount CD Images. It doesnt makes sense to make ISO backups of software, if you must also install no-cd cracks to use them and with no-cd crack CD Image is useless :) (and installing nocd cracks might be piracy also)

I dont want to say that ISO mounting is unimportant - its very important, but as first step to have complex CD Image mounting.]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:00:25 +0000 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:00:25 +0000
It is enabled in default intrepid installation and it is available from the "Open with" menu, exactly. That fits in the initial idea description. The launchpad comment that you linked concerns Hardy.

Dinth : Thanks for mentioning that CUE image are still not supported. According to your comment and since CUE is mentioned in the idea description, I set back this idea to "New".

However, if GNOME does not plan to support it soon, this idea status should go back to "Implemented" and another idea should be posted to ask gvfs to support CUE and/or other image files formats.]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:43:00 +0000 It is enabled in default intrepid installation and it is available from the "Open with" menu, exactly.

No, it was relegated to the "Open with" menu and a custom command because it's not working well enough to be a default feature. It's supposed to show up in the main right-click menu for mountable archives, but the support for different formats is very poor at this point.
]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:25:38 +0000 look@developers comment - and let them fix the bugs :)]]> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:47:25 +0000