I am an absolute Linux baby running Mint23(?) on my PC. I wanted to play an ancient game from my childhood that I cherished but I don’t really know how to get it off the Internet Archive onto my computer.
Any suggestions?
If you’re on Mint 23, just open up the file browser and double click the file, entering your password when prompted.
If you’ve got isos set to open as archives instead of auto mount, right click and select mount image from the menu.
# mount -o loop file.iso empty_dirYou might need to add sudo, OP
You probably know this already, but I thought I’d just mention here for OP and others: That’s what the
#at the beginning of the command implies (the command needs to be run as root), commands that can be run as a normal user are often denoted by.
“Linux is for everyone! No need to learn anything new” lmao.
You should need to learn code to open a file imo.
Most distros you can just open it, like on Mac.
You call that “learning code”? What are you, an AI tech bro?
All new things will require some learning and getting used to. If you think that is crazy you should see how to get windows to only search for local files
Or you could search in file explorer.
Or use Everything, which is a lot faster.
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As others said there’s a command, but pretty sure you can just right click and click “Mount” without bringing up terminal
The mount terminal command should work. But I’d expect you should be able to right-click an .iso file and mount it that way too. I’m not on Linux Mint but can confirm with GNOME on Debian it’s easy enough to right-click the .iso file and select “Open With Disk Image Mounter”, Cinnamon on Linux Mint should be able to do the same or similar.
Also keep mind you’re probably going to need to do more than just mount a .iso disc image if you want to play an old Windows game on Linux. There’s a few ways to go about that but I’m not too familiar on the best approach when you’re not running Windows games through Steam.
Some older formats require cdemu instead but I’d start with using mount -o loop as others have suggested.
I recall being able to double click or use the context menu in nemo. Maybe I’m confusing it with something else.
As others have noted, you can use the
mountcommand from the terminal. On Mint, you should also be able to use the Disks utility that ships with the OS if you’d prefer to use a GUI.I use the built in mount commend, personally.
