Create iso file linux

How to create an ISO image from a bunch of files on the file system?

Considering I have a bunch of files in a directory, I would like to bundle them into an ISO image file. How should I proceed to do that?

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1. Boot up Linux.
2. Go to a terminal screen. You can usually right click on the desktop and choose this option from the drop-down menu. 3A. Type dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/cdrom_image.iso . OR 3B. Type mkisofs -o /tmp/cd.iso /tmp/directory/ To make an ISO from files on your hard drive.

You must have permission to access the drive directly using dd . mount permissions are not necessarily the same as dd permissions! Also. when creating an ISO file, the device must not be mounted. To unmount the cdrom device, use the umount command as follows:

You may also use sudo to ensure you have proper permissions, but this also means you must have sudo access on the system. Check the /etc/sudoers file for information.

Step 4 is the correct solution to the original question. sudo should not be required for this. Remember to move cd.iso to whatever folder Wine/PlayonLinux needs for installation!

«4 type «mkisofs -o /tmp/cd.iso /tmp/directory/» To make an ISO from files on your hard drive.» worked greatly, thanks

To preserve long file names, mkisofs -r -o /tmp/cd.iso /tmp/directory/ (enables Rock Ridge protocol).

To have long file names in Windows, the -r is not enough, and you need to add a -J also (for Joliet), so mkisofs -r -J -o /tmp/cd.iso /tmp/directory/ .

It’s easy to create ISO in terminal as described in other answers but there are some GUI options too, Like Brasero. If you don’t already have it, you can install it using:

How can I create ISO images with Brasero?

• Hit the Super key (Windows key) and search for «brasero» and open it.
• Click on the Data project button.
• Click on the green plus button in the upper left corner in the toolbar to start adding files and directories to your image:

• Enter the name of disc at the bottom to whatever you like.
• Make sure no empty CD/DVD is in your optical drives and click on Burn.
• Brasero will ask you for the location where you want to create ISO image, Give your desired location and click on Create Image . That’s it!

If you want to burn that image to disc, Just right click on ISO image you just created and select «Open With Brasero Disc Burner». Select your optical drive and click Create Image .

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Introduction

For an introductory explanation of ISO images and burning them see IsoImage.This page details how to create an ISO (.iso) file from a CD or DVD.

Why would I want to do this?

1. Creating images of discs that you copy frequently. This means that you can make copies in the future without the source disc — see BurningIsoHowto.
2. Creating images of discs you use frequently so that you do not have to have the disc in the drive to access them — see MountIso.

Creating an iso image from a non-music CD or DVD

GUI (Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, Focal Fossa)

1. Insert the CD or DVD.
2. Wait for the disk icon to display in the Dock. Your CD or DVD has now been mounted and can be read by Ubuntu.
3. Click the «Show Applications» icon in the Dock to display a Search box.
4. In the Search box, type «disks», then click the Disks application to open it.
5. In Disks, click the «CD/DVD Drive» entry on the left to display the CD or DVD volume. (Don’t touch anything else in Disks unless you know what you’re doing.)
6. Click the menu icon in the top-right, then click «Create Disk Image. » to display the Create Disk Image dialog, as shown in this screenshot: create-file-rename.png
7. Enter a name for the .iso file and choose where you want to save the file.
8. Click «Start Creating. » to start creating the .iso image of the CD or DVD. Then wait until the progress indicator in Disks shows that the image creation is completed.

You can check your new .iso file by double-clicking it to mount it, then browsing it as you would if it were a CD or DVD.

Command line

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso (assuming /dev/cdrom is where the CD is mounted, and file.iso is the name you want to give the ISO, in the current directory)

Creating an iso image from a music CD or DVD

1. Insert the CD or DVD.
2. Wait for Sound Juicer to pop-up with the songs on the disc
3. Close Sound Juicer
4. Click «Places» > «Computer» (the menu at the top of your screen)
5. Right-click the icon of the CD
6. Select «Copy Disc. «
7. Alongside «Copy disc to:», change the drop-down to read «File image»
8. Click «Write»
9. Choose where you want to save the file
10. Click OK

The icon of the CD can also be found on the Desktop after the disc has been inserted. This icon can also be used for steps 5 — 10.

Listening the audio tracks of an iso image from a music CD

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How to Create an ISO File in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Most operating system and programs especially large one comes in an ISO format containing all required installation files. An ISO file or an ISO image is a perfect representation of all file and folders contained in a CD /DVD. Alternatively, you can say that it is a package all installation files and folder in one single file in an ISO format.

You can easily back up or archive the files and folders into an ISO file. You can make that ISO file to act it as an external drive, make bootable USBs or CD/DVD to later use for installation, save as a backup or distributing it over to someone.

• Create an installation disc by Burning to USB or CD/DVD.
• Mount as a virtual drive.
• Use for installation of OS or software programs.

In this article, I will describe some ways to create an ISO file in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Using Mkisofs utility

Under Linux, you can create an ISO image from a folder using a command line argument with the Mkisofs utility. You can use Mkisofs to automatically backup the data with the option to exclude some individual files if necessary. It supports wildcards as well.

The basic syntax of the command is:

$ mkisofs -o [filename.iso] [ directory_path]

-o defines the file name of the ISO you want to create followed by the directory you want to backup or store an ISO file.

For instance, I want to create an ISO file from the directory /home/tin/Documents/backup and save it as backup.iso file:

$ mkisofs –o backup.iso /home/tin/Documents/backup

It will create the backup.iso file and save it in the current directory.

Using dd command in Terminal to build an ISO file

Basically using dd command, we can create copies of data whether they are file or folders, partitions, or CD/DVDs. We can also make use of dd command to create ISO files.

The basic syntax of dd command is:

If= Tells command from where to input the source data.

Of= Tells command where to define the output.

For instance, I will type the following command to copy and save the contents of the drive as an ISO file named diskimage.iso:

$ sudo dd if= /dev/sdb of= diskimage.iso

The ISO image named diskimage.iso will be created in the current directory.

Using Brasero utility to make an ISO file

You can use Linux disk burning utility Brasero to create an ISO file. Older versions of Ubuntu include built-in Brasero utility. However, in 16.04 and the newer version, you have to manually install this utility.

To install Brasero, press Ctrl+Alt+T to launch Terminal.

Enter the following command in Terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install brasero

Once you have done with the installation, open the application.

To open the Brasero application, Press windows key or click on dash icon in the bottom left corner of the desktop to open Dash menu.

Then search for Brasero application by typing its name in the search bar. When the application appears, click on it to open it.

In the Brasero application window, click on the Data project option.

Then click on the + icon to start adding files to the new project.

From the window that appears, select the individual files or directories then click on Add.

You will notice that files are added in the application. Click on Burn.

Choose the location to save the ISO file. Specify the name for the ISO file with .iso extension and click on Create Image.

Once finished, you will be notified that the image has been successfully created.

Hence all above were the different ways using which you can create ISO files. Once you have ISO file, you can save it as a backup, use it as virtual CD/DVD, burn it on USB or CD/DVD and share it with someone.

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2 Ways to Create an ISO Image File in Linux

An ISO image file is an archive of files and directories compressed using the ISO 9660 format. It is suitable for writing CD or DVD discs, sector by sector.

When you download an operating system or even some games, they give you their ISO image file. Either you can uncompress/mount them on your system or burn a CD/DVD disc using the ISO image file.

However, we have already written a detailed guide on how to mount and unmount an ISO image on Linux. Therefore, today’s focus will be on creating an ISO image file from a collection of files or media devices in Linux.

How to Create an ISO Image File in Linux

In Linux, you will get two commands to create an ISO image file: dd (abbreviation of Data Definition) and the mkisofs command.

Does dd create an ISO image? The dd command is commonly used for copying or converting files. However, you can use the same command to create an ISO image from a media device connected to your system, like CD/DVD discs.

What are mkisofs used for? It is used to create an ISO image file from a bunch of files located in your system for writing to CDs or DVDs.

Prerequisite

First, you need to insert the media devices like CDs or DVDs and find the full path to these devices using the df command.

[email protected]:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs 810756 2028 808728 1% /run /dev/sda3 102106072 10405360 86467868 11% / tmpfs 4053768 0 4053768 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock /dev/sda2 524252 5364 518888 2% /boot/efi tmpfs 810752 116 810636 1% /run/user/1001 /dev/sdb1 iso9660 2.2G 2.2G 0 100% /media/trendoceans/Ubuntu 
However, if you want to create an ISO image file from a group of files and directories stored on your machine, find the path to that directory using the pwd command.

Once you have the location of the file, you can continue to perform any of the below steps to create an ISO image file from a bunch of files or directories in Linux.
Using the dd command
The dd command is a utility for Linux systems that provides you with features like converting and copying files from two different sources.
On the Linux system, hardware devices or special device files (like /dev/zero and /dev/random ) are usually mapped as system files.
The dd command has the capability to read or write these files and perform tasks such as backing up the boot sector of a hard drive.
It can also perform conversions on the data as it is copied, including byte order swapping and conversion to and from the ASCII and EBCDIC text encodings.
The same command can easily create an ISO image file from the inserted disc on your machine. Just use the following command and do not forget to replace the mount location with your own.
$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/home/trendoceans/Documents/ubuntu.iso
 
 
if requires the mount location of the media devices (CD or DVD) instead of stdin.
 
of requires the location to save the ISO image file instead of stdout.
 
 
Using the mkisofs command
 
The mkisofs command is used to create an ISO file from a directory containing a bunch of files that can be used to burn CDs or DVDs later.
 
For example, you have a directory located at /home/trendoceans/mydir/ which contains a lot of files, and you want to create an ISO image file of that directory.
 
For that, you can use the mkisofs command with the -o option, specifying the location to save the ISO file and the path of the directory containing the bunch of files, as shown below.
 
$ mkisofs -o ~/image.iso /home/trendoceans/mydir/ $ ls -lah image.iso
 
Below is the output of the above command.
 
 
 
These are the two methods used to create an ISO image file from the command line. However, if you have any queries regarding the topic, feel free to comment.
 
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