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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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