Thursday, April 23, 2009

Gmount ISO - Easily Mount ISO Images with a Well-Designed API



GMount ISO is a virtual drive for Linux written using PyGTK and Glade. It is a frontend to the mount command that allows you to convert CDs and unencrypted DVDs into virtual drives that run directly on your hard drive, getting rid of the need for physical discs and your CD-ROM drive. The access rate for the virtual disc is about 200 times faster than that of a physical CD.

GMount ISO is available from the repositories. You can search for "gmountiso" in Synaptic, or you can run the following command:

sudo apt-get install gmountiso

Posted by Mary at 5:12 PM

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2 comments:

Mosher said...

I checked this out a few days ago. It's nice and all, but requires you to pre-create mount points and the like.

Check out:

http://mundogeek.net/nautilus-scripts/#nautilus-mount-image

It simply adds a "Mount image" option to the right-click menu. Quick, simple, easy. To unmount, you have to right-click the ISO and *not* the mounted image. That's the only fiddly thing I could find with it.

April 24, 2009 6:37 AM
Greg said...

cool - this one looks handy (glad to see a new post too :)

April 24, 2009 10:16 AM

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