Mounting ISO

[Goh Lip]

On 01/23/2011 07:14 AM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote:
 > Wow, OK, go get some beauty sleep already!

Ahhh...  a few hours of sleep can do wonders.....you kids should try 
that sometimes....  :)


Okay to recap some points and some assumptions...

o  Lets say the file, sage-511-46.iso  is put in /home/jorge/ and that 
is in partition /dev/hda2/ with UUID xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and LABEL yyyy

o  Puppy Linux, which sage-511-46.iso is based on, requires extraction 
of the .sfs file which in this case, would be lupq-511.sfs and needed to 
be placed at the same level as the puppy iso to be able to boot iso file.



At terminal (under jorge at computer)
sudo mkdir /mnt/iso
sudo mount -o loop sage-511-46.iso /mnt/iso/
sudo cp /mnt/iso/lupq-511.sfs /home/jorge/


make a grub2 menu entry and put it in the grub.cfg file.

menuentry "Iso - Sage " {
search --no-floppy --label --set yyyy
loopback loop /home/jorge/sagelive-511-46.iso
linux (loop)/vmlinuz findiso=/home/jorge/sagelive-511-46.iso noeject 
quiet splash noprompt
initrd (loop)/initrd.gz
}

note: if there is no label set for that partition, use UUID (preferably 
actually), to replace the second line...

search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Since I am much opposed to using /dev/hda2 or (hdx,y) in the grub menu, 
like...
set root=(hd1,2)
loopback loop (hd1,2)/home/jorge/sagelive-511-46.iso
linux (loop)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2/ noeject noprompt quiet splash
initrd (loop)/initrd.gz

I shall not do so.  :)

Regards, good luck - Goh Lip

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