Re: Writable partition for D-I ISO images

2024-03-28 Thread Thomas Lange
A followup to my post from December It's possible to access the data partition when booting a real CD using mount with an offset. offset=$(fdisk -l /dev/sr0 | awk '/p3/ { print $2 * 512 }') mount -ooffset=$offset /dev/sr0 /data But the partition is read-only. >> On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:15:53

Re: Writable partition for D-I ISO images

2024-01-02 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi! On 2023-12-20 08:47, Roland Clobus wrote: > A few months ago another approach was presented on the live-build project: > for computers that are able to boot with EFI (secure or not), preparing a > live USB-stick (based on the ISO file) is nearly trivial [1]. It is called > FST (File System

Re: Writable partition for D-I ISO images

2023-12-20 Thread Roland Clobus
Hello Thomas, lists, First: I think it is a good idea to provide such mechanism out-of-the-box A few months ago another approach was presented on the live-build project: for computers that are able to boot with EFI (secure or not), preparing a live USB-stick (based on the ISO file) is nearly

Re: Writable partition for D-I ISO images

2023-12-19 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:15:53 +0100, Philip Hands said: > This makes me think that we may be able to publish an image with a > filesystem already appended to it, so that a blend could then create > such a thing including a preseed file that configures their preferred >

Re: Writable partition for D-I ISO images

2023-12-19 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Tomas, [ For those that have not already seen it, this is in reply to: https://blog.fai-project.org/posts/extending-iso-images/ ] I've long thought that it would be great to be able to easily tweak our ISO images, and I think this idea may well provide the means. This could be particularly