Mount -o loop filename /mnt

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Mon Nov 24 01:32:53 UTC 2008


Joel Goguen wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 17:58 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     What I want to do is change the ownership to me and make all the 
>> files rwx for my purposes. But the read only has it all locked up. How 
>> do you turn that off? Even root cannot :-)
>>     
> AFAIK, ISO files are read-only file systems.  You would need to copy all
> the files off the ISO, modify what you want, then re-create the ISO
> image.  Look at 'man genisoimage' for details on doing that.
>
>   
    Thank you and genisoimage is a HUGE software. It will take a few 
hours to learn what it can do. It looks like it can add some files to a 
.iso file. That is what I am trying to do. I tried mkisofs -r -o but it 
didn't work at all.

Karl


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