Mounting an ISO image via the loopback device, so that you can view/edit the files before burning a CD/DVD.

I found this text on a download page at http://www.linuxhelp.net/linux_downloads/

Once you've downloaded an ISO Image you can mount it as a loopback device. This will give you access to the files in the ISO without you having to burn it to a CDROM first. In order to do this you must have loopback compiled into your Linux Kernel. (Most newer distributions will have this enabled by default).

For example if you wanted to mount filename.iso to /mnt/iso you would run the following command:

This is very useful, I have edited live CD's to make them a little more custom wit this technique. This works on most linux distros. It may work on the mac, I have not tried it yet.

-Fratm