Hello all ! I got my N900 a few weeks ago and i must say it's been meeting all my expectations (and exceeding some as well too! mplayer rocks!)

However I just need to be pointed in the right direction as I want to be able to mount .iso files to view some media content on the go. Is this possible on the n900 now?

Also as an offshooot of mounting iso's is there a similar application like "Wine" on ubuntu for maemo 5 or am I just pushing my luck?

Thanks in advance!

Try to open xterm, go to the directory with the iso image and type
mount -o loop <isoimage.iso> <mount_directory>
Probably you'll need to be root.
Let us know if it works

Waiting for the result

The necessary file system (iso9660) is not compiled in, and not available as a module by default on the N900, so there is not much chance that the mount will succeed.

About wine - you may be able to run windows inside qemu, but the performance will be really bad (maybe like a 10MHz X86 CPU).

hi thanks for the tip, have not tried it yet I am having difficulty navigating to my documents folder in xterm which is where i have the .iso file saved.

pwd shows i am in "/home/user"

can see from file manager its in jubei/documents


i would have thought a common

"cd /home/user/jubei/documents"

would take me there! even if i had to put the dollar sign!

any help how i can get there?

Just try

Then list the contents

Then you will be able to cd into the appropriate file/dir at each stage.

Unless you have modified your setup, "ls" wan't do, because the documents folder is a hidden folder (you need "ls -a"). On a standard setup the document folder is located at

/home/user/MyDocs/.documents

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ sudo gainroot
Root shell enabled


BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/home/user # ls
MyDocs
/home/user # cd /home/user/MyDocs
/home/user/MyDocs # mount -o loop A+ CBT Nuggets.iso /mnt/iso
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+0m5) multi-call binary

Usage: mount [flags] DEVICE NODE [-o options,more-options]

/home/user/MyDocs # mount -o loop <A+ CBT Nuggets.iso> <mount_directory>
/bin/sh: syntax error: redirection unexpected
/home/user/MyDocs # mount -o loop <isoimage.iso> <mount_directory>
/bin/sh: syntax error: redirection unexpected
/home/user/MyDocs #


i tried quite a few commands probably all wronge but i tried no luck what am i doing wronge?

if you're iso file name is "A+ CBT Nuggets.iso", you should write this:
mount -o loop "A+ CBT Nuggets.iso" /mnt/iso
and the /mnt/iso directory should exists.

However Matan said that the ISO9660 is not compiled in, therefore you can't mount ISO files.

You can try to download and insmod this:

http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/n900/isofs.ko

(not tested).