Using virtual drives in ubuntu

[Clayton]

>  > please can anyone tell me how to setup a virtual drive(s) (for mounting
>  > cd images). my version of ubuntu is gutsy gibbon
>
>  In a terminal use the command
>
>  sudo mount -oloop filename.iso /mnt
>
>  where you replace filename.iso with the appropriate filename of the CD
>  image. Then you find the contents of the image in the directory /mnt. And
>  you can replace /mnt with any other empty directory of your system
>  if /mnt is already in use.

Other choices are:

 - ISO Master (in the Ubuntu repositories).  You can use this to
extract the contents of ISOs to a directory.  It works somewhat like
an archive extract tool.  Quite useful if you don't want to deal with
command line.  You can extract the contents of an ISO to a directory,
and the result is basically the same as if you mounted the ISO
directly.

 - AcetoneISO - http://www.acetoneiso.netsons.org/  No Ubuntu package
maintainer yet (they are looking for a volunteer), but you can build
it from the sources if you're up to it.  This is quite a nice
application, and I use it a lot on openSUSE (where there is a package
maintainer).

C