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On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> This is somewhat off topic. Ignore if it's of no interest. |
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>> I've got a DOS program called SpinRite that does low-level testing |
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>> of hard drives. I have the program in two forms: |
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>> 1) A bootable CD that just runs the program |
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>> 2) A stand alone DOS executable that can be run from a CD. |
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>> Both of the above run fine under FreeDOS. Problem is I don't know |
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>> how to load device drivers for USB unless I can edit a config.sys |
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>> file, create a new ISO and then burn a new CD. So... |
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>> 1) Is there a way for me to read the bootable ISO image into a |
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>> directory on my machine |
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>> 2) Edit the files |
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>> 3) Make a new ISO image from the directory (mkisofs?) |
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>> This seems 'relatively' straight forward. I haven't built it yet |
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>> but I found isomaster in portage. Is it a good tool? Should I just do |
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>> this from the command line and if so how? How do the Gentoo packagers |
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>> put together the install CD images? |
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> Call me old-fashioned but I don't see anything wrong with just copying |
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> the root of the CD to an empty directory, editing the files and then |
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> using mkisofs to re-create a new ISO. |
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> -a |
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Hey. I like old fashioned. |
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How does that handle the 'bootable' part of the CD? I presume there is |
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the equivalent of an MBR on a CD so the PC can get started. Is that |
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visible copying the root of the drive? (I'm at a Windows box as I |
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write this. Sorry!) |
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- Mark |
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