How to Mount ISO Files in Ubuntu
The standard method of distributing Ubuntu as a full operating system is as an ISO image, which you can burn to disc and boot from. If you need to look into what's in an ISO image you have a number of choices.
The first is to right-click the image file and select Open with "Archive Manager". The slight issue with this approach is that opening larger ISO files (DVD-ROM images, for example) can take some time, as can extracting files.
A better way is to mount the ISO image just like you an actual disk. To do so, open a terminal window and type the following (this assumes the file ubuntu.iso is in your /home folder):
$ sudo mkdir /media/ISO
$ sudo mount -o loop ~/ubuntu.iso /media/ISO
Note that the first command creates a mount point and doesn't need to be typed in future. Once the ISO image is mounted, an icon for it will automatically appear on the desktop. To unmount the image, type sudo umount /media/ISO in the terminal window.
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