Re: ISO's

Subject: Re: ISO's
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 15:18:53 AKST

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Thanks Chris, that worked great.

Adam

On Saturday 15 March 2003 12:29 pm, Christopher E. Brown wrote:
> 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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