Subject: Re: ISO's
From: Christopher E. Brown (cbrown@woods.net)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 12:29:47 AKST
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Adam Elkins wrote:
>
> Mount the iso to a loopback device? Can I have an example?
> The only loopback I know of on my machine is eth.
>
> Adam
mount -o loop /<wherever>/files.iso /mnt/cdrom
mkdir ~/temp
cp -ax /mnt/cdrom/ ~/temp
umount /mnt/cdrom
cd ~/temp/cdrom
<make your changes>
cd ~/temp
mkisofs <whatever options you need>
Change for your prefs and needs of course. The loopback refered to is
a loopback mount, not a loopback network device. It is the system
that allows linux to treat a file as a block device.
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