Mount -o loop filename /mnt

[Karl Larsen]

Joel Goguen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 08:37 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>> Joel Goguen wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 05:34 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>> Joel Goguen wrote:
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>>>>> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 18:32 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>>>> Joel Goguen wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 17:58 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>>>>>>     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 :-)
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>>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>>     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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>>>>> For what you seem to need to do with it, it's actually quite simple.
>>>>> Put all the files you want on the ISO image into a single folder, then
>>>>> run 'genisoimage -o myimage.iso /path/to/folder/' and you'll have
>>>>> 'myimage.iso' that contains all the files in the folder.  Now, how to
>>>>> change the ISO9660 conformance level to not truncate filenames and such
>>>>> is up to you to find in the man page...which is actually quite easy to
>>>>> find :)
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>>>>     Really what is going on is I have a cd-rom of WindowsXP Professional 
>>>> with SP2 and I want to put it on my cheap laptop from Compaq which came 
>>>> with Windows Vista which is Windows Melinium in character. It is so 
>>>> terrible I deleted it.
>>>>
>>>>     Well now HP has told me the SATA hard drive has been giggered so you 
>>>> can't load anything but Vista. I told them I loaded Ubuntu Intrepid with 
>>>> no problems at all from the SATA hard drive.
>>>>
>>>>     Then they let me d/l some strange software from the HP web page and 
>>>> I need to "remaster" the WinXP cd-rom with these drivers within. So I 
>>>> got the .iso easy with the gui Copy a disk. You then tell it to copy to 
>>>> a file and it does a fine job.
>>>>
>>>>     The mount -o loop was found on Google and it works of course. But it 
>>>> has a problem(s) that prompted my message. The first is you can't add 
>>>> any files to the .iso because it complains. I can't find any way to make 
>>>> it a bit bigger. I think the added drivers are about 150 mb.
>>>>
>>>>     What you say about getting the format right for the new cd-rom is a 
>>>> problem I do not know a thing about.
>>>>
>>>> Karl
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>>> I don't know what ISO level Windows XP CD uses, but try level 4 to
>>> start.  All you need to do is:
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>>> - Copy all files from the WinXP ISO to a folder on your computer
>>> - Add the files you need to this folder
>>> - Run genisoimage to create the new ISO image
>>> - Burn the new ISO to disc
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>>     I did make a cd-rom and it fails to boot. It looks perfect on Linux 
>> but it ain't good for windows. I did not use anything like a 4 and have 
>> no idea what that is.
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>> I used the simplest method on the man page and that it appears is too 
>> simple. Another drink coaster :-)
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>>     Please send the whole context of a call so my pee brain can do it.
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>>
>> Karl
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> It seems that the Windows XP CD doesn't come with an obvious boot image.
> The simplest method in the man page wouldn't have used it anyway though,
> you need to tell genisoimage to make a bootable image.
>
> Here's step-by-step directions I put together based on this Google
> search.
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> http://www.google.ca/search?q=genisoimage+make+bootable+WinXP+ISO
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> First, here is how to extract the boot image you'll need to pass to
> genisoimage:
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> - Run 'isoinfo -d -i /path/to/win_xp.iso'.  This will output some
> information, you want to look for the line beginning with 'Bootoff'.
> Write down the second number from that line.
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> - Extract the boot image: dd if=/path/to/win_xp.iso of=boot.img bs=2048
> count=1 skip=<number from previous step>
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> This gives you boot.img, which you pass to genisoimage to create an El
> Torito bootable image.  This command should give you a good image:
>
> genisoimage -b /path/to/boot/img -no-emul-boot -c boot.cat
> -max-iso9660-filenames -relaxed-filenames /path/to/win_xp/folder/
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>   
    Thank you Joel, I will try and see how that works. It sounds about 
right.


Karl


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