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ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

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How to edit bootable iso files?

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lilsirecho

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Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

Mount in  -o loop....

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ProzacR

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Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

I tired this but it do not work!
Iso is read only filesystem blabla and so on.

lilsirecho

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Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

You must be root.

Try search for Linux edit .iso.....

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ProzacR

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Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

I searched and found nothing.

lilsirecho

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Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-mo … linux.html

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ProzacR

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Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

I know how to mount.
I asked how to edit image not how to mount it for read read only acess.

Last edited by ProzacR (2007-12-30 21:55:47)

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

http://www.acetoneiso.netsons.org/
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-12-30 23:09:33)

sebleblanc

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From: Montréal, Canada

Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 41

Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

Iso is read only filesystem blabla and so on.

Maybe it is really read-only.

gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

What about isomaster? It's in the community repository.

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tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

You might find this useful:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/ … iskGParted

He shows how to combine 3 live CDs into 1 bootable iso.

XChrisX

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Registered: 2007-10-21

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Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

I am pretty sure that you cannot edit a bootable iso.
You will have to mount the iso, extract all the files,
change what you want to the extracted files, and
make a new iso from the modified extracted files.

Mr Green

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Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

mkdir fred
sudo mount -o loop <path to iso> ~/fred

you can then do what you need to do

recreating iso is a bit more tricky beyond my powers lol

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lilsirecho

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Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

I have a suggestion that might have merit.

When utilizing LIVE systems, the unionfs, now aufs, mounts while in root, any new device (DVD) content as r/w.

Perhaps utilizing that characteristic of aufs/unionfs will get the DVD .iso files mounted as r/w.

It is not apparent whether the .iso is CD or DVD but aufs should provide a r/w file which can be modified.

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kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

This should make the process simple.

http://www.geocities.com/potato.geo/pbcd.html

or if you simply need to flash your bios

http://www.nenie.org/misc/flashbootcd.html

Last edited by kishd (2007-12-31 21:59:45)

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lilsirecho

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Re: How to edit bootable iso files?

The following is a display of files in a FaunOS.iso which has been loop mounted in root Desktop and has permissions r/w.

This a large .iso of 869MB.  Many of the files are squashfs.  The idea was to show the possibility of r/w for all the content of an .iso....

[file:///root/Desktop/iso/boot
file:///root/Desktop/iso/base.sqf
file:///root/Desktop/iso/boot.catalog
file:///root/Desktop/iso/etc.sqf
file:///root/Desktop/iso/faunos.img
file:///root/Desktop/iso/memtest
file:///root/Desktop/iso/overlay.sqf
file:///root/Desktop/iso/save
file:///root/Desktop/iso/system.sqf
file:///root/Desktop/iso/vmlinuzf

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