create a boot-able disk from an iso file

[MR ZenWiz]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Boggess Rod <rboggess at tenovacore.com> wrote:
>
> Yea, I read that soon after I sent the article.
> (http://www.algorithm-forge.com/techblog/2009/07/executable-application-
> launcher/) It appears that the X-bit is being hijacked as a trust bit,
> and it's not set by default. The first time you say to trust it, it
> marks that bit and never asks again. Here's more discussion on the
> topic:
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/320707/
>

I found it interesting that the first article suggests that /home be
mounted noexec.  Wouldn't that completely cripple desktop icons?  (Not
that this is a bad idea, but hmm....)

I routinely write and maintain a fair number of custom binaries and
shell scripts that I have, until now, kept in my ~/bin directory.  If
I made /home noexec, I'd have to create another directory somewhere
for my customizations.  It's not a big issue and the "security"
trade-off might make it worthwhile, but it strikes me as a pain.

For one thing, I have a semi-universal .bashrc (and corresponding
alias and function files) that I can transport to just about any Linux
or UNIX system (most recently even a MAC) and they just work, but one
of the tiny little dependencies is that I can use my $HOME/bin for all
the shell scripts or programs that I want to being along as well.

Oh, well, just one more tripping block in the whole security with
customizations area.  Guess I'll need to create a custom "installer"
for my custom non-/home bin directory, not to mention a source
directory for the programs with a make file that puts them in the
right place, too, yada, yada, yada.