Linux app like Alcohol 120%?

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Archer75

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Looking for an app for managing and mounting image files such as alcohol 120%.
 
yup mount is all you need. You need a loopback device (which you should have, Gentoo users or custom kernel users might have missed this)

Code: 
mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso

basically:

the command "mount"

is instructed to use the "optional" device "loop" (to treat it as a actual CDROM)
use the filesystem iso9660 (the filesystem of CDROM's)
the filename of the ISO
the mount location (/mnt/iso directory MUST exist)
 
the only catch is that it only works with iso image files. k3b can burn (or make images from) iso, bin/cue, and some other format, you so can use that to spawn iso's that are mounted with the mount command.
 
You can also use bchunk to convert from bin/cue - pairs to iso files, if you prefer a CLI tool.
 
I would rather have a GUI option as opposed spending my life at the command prompt. Takes too damn long and I always forget what to type and then i'm off looking it up again.

Would be nice to have an app that I can keep all my image files in at once and mount/unmount as needed. And it needs to work with ISO, NRG, Clone CD and Alcohol files.
 
Whatsisname said:
the only catch is that it only works with iso image files. k3b can burn (or make images from) iso, bin/cue, and some other format, you so can use that to spawn iso's that are mounted with the mount command.
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There are bin/cue to ISO converters
 
Archer75 said:
I would rather have a GUI option as opposed spending my life at the command prompt. Takes too damn long and I always forget what to type and then i'm off looking it up again.

Would be nice to have an app that I can keep all my image files in at once and mount/unmount as needed. And it needs to work with ISO, NRG, Clone CD and Alcohol files.
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I know what you are saying and GUI's you would think are faster and it "might" be a pain living in the 70's command line, but believe me the CLI is alot faster then the GUI (and more powerful) once you are use to it

ONe option might be if you used GNOME have a GNOME script written that allows you to then right-click on an ISO and it give's you the option to mount the ISO

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/24/nautilus-script-to-mount-iso-files/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=87369
http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17418

The ability to have nautilis scripts that are actually very poswerful is one of the main reasons I like GNOME, but with E17+nautilus, now that will be sweet
 
and I always forget what to type and then i'm off looking it up again.
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use control->r to search in your previous commands. I have my bash_history set to a huge amount and have it not save dupes. With this that whole looking it up again starts to wear off a bit.
 
In KDE you can find a nice set of context menus for the mouse right-click for managing/mounting iso's. It is available at www.kde-look.org in the service menus section. These menus will only be available when you right-click an iso file. They are easy to install.
 
eeyrjmr said:
I know what you are saying and GUI's you would think are faster and it "might" be a pain living in the 70's command line, but believe me the CLI is alot faster then the GUI (and more powerful) once you are use to it

ONe option might be if you used GNOME have a GNOME script written that allows you to then right-click on an ISO and it give's you the option to mount the ISO

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/24/nautilus-script-to-mount-iso-files/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=87369
http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17418

The ability to have nautilis scripts that are actually very poswerful is one of the main reasons I like GNOME, but with E17+nautilus, now that will be sweet
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Those are certainly nice. But what about mounting formats other than ISO?
 
I don't think you can mount cue/bins in Linux - you'd have to convert the bin file to an ISO with something like bchunk, but several users have already said this.

Mounting nrg files can be done with the correct mount options.

A shell script like the one here (llg.cubic.org) will mount nrgs for you.

As for Alcohol MDF files - don't know, but I think you'd have to convert them to ISO as well with something like mdf2iso.
 
deuce868 said:
use control->r to search in your previous commands. I have my bash_history set to a huge amount and have it not save dupes. With this that whole looking it up again starts to wear off a bit.
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I personally think tcsh does this better: Type something, (e.g. "ls"), and press up/down to go through all comands in the history that starts with what you typed. (So you'd type "cd", up, enter to repeat the last cd command.)
 
HHunt said:
I personally think tcsh does this better: Type something, (e.g. "ls"), and press up/down to go through all comands in the history that starts with what you typed. (So you'd type "cd", up, enter to repeat the last cd command.)
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The nice thing with control r is that it doesn't have to start with what you did. It can be anywhere in the command.
 
deuce868 said:
The nice thing with control r is that it doesn't have to start with what you did. It can be anywhere in the command.
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True, though I find the tcsh-variant more intuitive. Very much a matter of taste and habits. :)
 
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