[NTLUG:Discuss] mkisofs [was: OT: Fry's]

Rob Apodaca rob.apodaca at attbi.com
Fri May 2 13:14:59 CDT 2003


On Fri, 02 May 2003 14:11:40 -0500
Joel Sinor <jsinor at comcast.net> wrote:

> So if I have an iso, and I want to modify it, I will actually need to
> mount it, then copy the files off, then use mkisofs to make a new one? 
Yes, that's the way.

> I suppose that is reasonable.  I recently learned how to make iso images
> in linux, but when I tried a command similar to yours I got errors about
> the "device not found" or something and thought  I probably did
> something wrong configuring the kernel.
> I tried it the way you said and it worked fine.
> And you were right, even without the -r flag it is read-only. Oh, well.
> :)
You probably did not enable loopback device support in your kernel.

Cheers



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