Mount ISO images easily under Nautilus

I had purchased Lenovo y410 series laptop few months back , the laptop worked flawlessly for few months but well sadly few weeks back optical drive stopped working. I had downloaded an iso from which i wanted to run few files, now as the DVD drive on my laptop was not working and well repairs will take time so i was in a fix , about how to extract files from this ISO and run them . Searching Google , Ubuntu forums etc i found a very simple and easy way of mounting ISO's under nautilus which i am trying to document here in this article.


Open the terminal window(Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal ) and issue the following commands in the terminal window :

wget http://www.debianadmin.com/images/iso/mount.sh

and

wget http://www.debianadmin.com/images/iso/unmount.sh

Now we need to change the file permissions , to make the above script executable. Which we could do by issuing the following command in the terminal window :

sudo chmod +x mount.sh

sudo chmod +x unmount.sh

Finally we move the above scripts to nautilus directory by issuing the following command in the terminal window ;

sudo mv mount.sh ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/

sudo mv unmount.sh ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/

Now open nautilus and inside nautilus open directory containing ISO image you want to mount. Right Click on the ISO image and you will find menu similar to one shown below :

Click on the mount.sh file , if ISO file mounts properly you will find two dialog boxes similar to one shown below :

Also on the desktop you should find the icon of the mounted DVD/CD ISO file .
Now if you want to unmount the ISO volume , right click on the icon of the mounted ISO and click on the unmount.sh as shown in figure below :
Tutorial Written by : Ambuj Varshney (blogambuj@gmail.com)
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