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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net> wrote: |
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>>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=build+your+own+live+cd+gentoo |
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>>Not so useful, thanks. Google fails me regularly. Personalized |
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>>searches are getting to be a real sore spot for me; not just mine, but |
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>>those of people pointing me at Google assuming my searches for the |
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>>same keywords will get the same results. Particular grating is when |
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>>someone sends me a link to a search, then the link to what I was |
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>>looking for, and says something like "first hit". My first *page* |
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>>didn't even have that link on it. |
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> well... i didn't know if it was ok to post links to unofficial gentoo |
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> resources on this list which is why i went with the search. |
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Posting direct links should be absolutely fine, IMO. My fiancee shares |
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my frustrations with LMGTFY responses; she'll google for a phrase, and |
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the first few results will be forum and newsgroup mirrors of threads |
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along the lines of: |
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"How do I do $x" |
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"Google for "$phrase_just_googled_for" |
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>>> alternatively you could use catalyst: |
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>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ |
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>>> or you just mount the iso, modify it, run mkisofs on it and burn it. |
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>>> the mkisofs options you are looking for are -b and -c. |
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>>I knew there was going to be something I wasn't going to know, and it |
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>>looks like the values passed to -b and -c are it. |
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> again, the hint you maybe didn't get was: you will have to do some of |
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> the work yourself. |
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If I wasn't willing to do some of the work myself, I wouldn't be using |
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Gentoo. I'd be using Ubuntu. Or wearign diapers. Thanks. |
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>>I don't want to build a CD from scratch (and doing so looks like it |
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>>would require setting up a fully "generic" box to build). I just want |
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>>to add two files to an existing ISO. |
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>>How would I extract boot_catalog and eltorito_boot_image from an |
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>>existing ISO? |
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> you can actually omit -c i think. use isolinux.bin (should be on the |
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> livecd) as boot image. |
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Huh. Ok; when I glanced through the man page for mkisofs, I got the |
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impression that the files added by -b and -c wouldn't appear on the |
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filesystem. I don't know how El Torido actually works, at the ISO |
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level, I only know it's something like a bootable floppy image that a |
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capable BIOS loads and executes. |
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