How can we burn an iso image to hard disk?

I know that:

1. An ISO image can be burned to a CD/DVD.
2. It can be mounted to any directory in the hard disk.
3. It can be burned to a CD, and then the contents be copied to the hard disk.

But can we actually put the contents of the ISO image on the hard disk (as in option 3 above) directly? (without burning it to a CD first)

2 Answers

Yes, you can do it directly, for example, you could save a drive image into a iso and then recover it to the same hard disk using Clonezilla.

Yes.

Method 1 (GUI):

Double click the ISO image to open it. Drag all the files to another location on your hard drive.

Method 2 (command line):

Mount the ISO:

mount -o loop,ro /path/to/image.iso /mnt
cp -a /mnt/* /destination