Mount -o loop filename /mnt

[Karl Larsen]

Joel Goguen wrote:
> 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.
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>>     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.

I used the simplest method on the man page and that it appears is too 
simple. Another drink coaster :-)

    Please send the whole context of a call so my pee brain can do it.


Karl


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