Building on Knoppix

[D Uhlman]

You can mount ISOs as loopback devices as stated previously, 
additionally the hands down best method for testing is vmware as it can 
pretend a .iso is the cdrom drive and automatically boot from it, no 
burn and test, burn and test.

You can't really edit a mounted iso (ro file system) but you can use the 
mounted folder as a root for mkisofs. Works like a charm I used it to 
build the 50KM cds at the time.

I am very interested in this too, for other reasons than plug, so we 
might be able to have some crossover here.

Sincerely,
David Uhlman
CTO 50km Inc.

Carl Parrish wrote:
> Yeah I guess I should have given more info there. <g> But it looks like someone else beat me to it. 
> 
> Carl P. 
> ============================================================
> From: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>
> Date: 2002/11/25 Mon AM 08:06:37 EST
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Building on Knoppix
> 
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> You'd need to take the original ISO, copy/unpack it to a writeable file
> system, make your changes or additions, and generate a new, bootable ISO.
> 
> - billn
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Carl Parrish wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've never done anything like this but I'd assume that mkisofs would allow you to do what you're asking.
>>
>>Carl P.
>>
>>============================================================
>>From: "Ted Gould" <ted@gould.cx>
>>Date: 2002/11/25 Mon AM 11:49:54 EST
>>To: "PLUG Discuss List" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>Subject: Building on Knoppix
>>
>>Hey,
>>
>>How would I add a file to an ISO (specifically Knoppix).  I was curious
>>because I was thinking that perhaps we would want to add some PLUG
>>related materials to a Knoppix CD that we would give out.  But, I've
>>never done anything like that.
>>
>>I know that you can mount ISOs through the loopback device, but I
>>thought that they were read-only in that case.  Would I have to make a
>>larger ISO, mount both of them, and the copy the smaller to the larger
>>with additional files?  What about the 'bootable issues'?  Has anyone
>>done anything like this before?
>>
>>		Thanks,
>>			Ted
>>
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