Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:06:46 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing to ISO-images mounted as vnodes? Message-ID: <20021221220646.GW930@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20021221212903.0B80E380@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> References: <20021221212903.0B80E380@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>
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On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 10:13:10PM +0100, dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl wrote: > While I was thinking how to make a bootable DOS-CD (the floppies for > sale now just aren't as reliable as they used to be), I thought of the > following strategy: > > - copy the ISO-image of my Win98 install-CD (AFAIK that's legal if you > own the CD). > - configure the image as a vnode (vnconfig). > - mount the vnode (mount_cd9660). > - remove the files that are not needed (the ones that install Win98) > from the mounted vnode; just leaving a DOS boot-CD with just a little > more useful utilities than would fit on a floppy... > > Unfortunately, mounting the vnode as cd9660 mounts it read-only, and > I couldn't find a way to mount it "rw" (-o rw doesn't seem to help). I was thinking about something similair a couple of weeks ago, to make it easy for me to arrange files on a cdrom ISO image. Unfortunatly the write-routines for the cd9660 driver are non-existent. Did sound nice, just create a 650Mb file, mount it, copy some files into it, unmount it and ready to burn. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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