[RULE] editing the RULE ISO

Michael Fratoni mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net
Sat May 17 09:17:26 EEST 2003


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On Friday 16 May 2003 01:27 pm, Ingo Lantschner wrote:

> The Slinky-ISO uses around 50 MB of Diskspace on a CD-ROM. There is lot
> of space for Apps und Doku one may give to the recipients in a given
> project. I already tried to extract the ISO to a harddrive (NTFS on
> W2k), added a directory and made a new ISO with Nero. Since this CD was
> not usable for a slinkyinstall, I guessed that due to failing
> Rockridge-Extensions under Windos the CD may not be readable in Linux.
> So I made a new ISO with 'mkisofs -JR ...' (runs in cygwin)  - with
> more or less the same result: Slinky could neither boot nor read it.
> (Well, the not-booting is somehow understandable)
>
> Also I am looking for a possibility to use a customized slinky.config,
> which leads me to the same problem.
>
> Googeling around brought me the result that the ISO9660 was not
> designed to be edited. Any idea?

This is fairly straight forward, actually. It just sounds a little 
complex...
Mount the .iso file:
mkdir tmp
mount -o loop file.iso tmp/
mkdir newiso
cp -a tmp/* newiso

Make your modifications in the 'newiso' directory, and recreate the .iso:

mkisofs -A Slinky -V  Slinky-v0.3.92 -J -L -N -r -T -v -x ./lost+found \
- -b images/slinky-v0.3.92.img -c boot.cat -o slinky.iso newiso

If you need help, just ask and I'll see what I can do.

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