I thought this was a handy tip I came across and was able to use recently. It involves mounting an ISO image file and being able to access the files, without having to burn the image on CD. I am told this is also possible on Windows if you have the right tools. Linux has them built in.

To mount the ISO image file.iso to the mount point /tmp/cd use these commands:

# mkdir /tmp/cd

# mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /tmp/cd

You can access the files on the image by:

# cd /tmp/cd

From here you can list the directory and copy files from the CD to anywhere else on your file system that is writable.