Please see my comments inline...
On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 06:07 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/23/2017 02:36 AM, Tom wrote:
> > > > As about your direct ISO file usage - Please realize that .iso
> > > > is
> > > > disk
> > > > image file format, not a file system where you can access and
> > > > execute
> > > > individual files.
> > >
> > > <chuckle>That basically was the point of my post.
> > > Perhaps my subject line could have been "How to translate iso
> > > -hybrid
> > > to extN?"
> > > That phraseology has its own problems. HOWEVER, phrasing it that
> > > way
> > > reminds me
> > > of an {on the surface} unrelated thread from ~2 years ago on
> > > another
> > > forum. It
> > > may not yield a solution to my current problem but should give me
> > > guidance to
> > > better question. There will be a delay there are 150+ messages to
> > > review :}
> > >
> > >
> > You mount .iso through loop device and copy/rsync the content. Here
> > is
> > and example:
Following command will mount your iso file named: fileName.iso to /mnt
directory. If you look into /mnt, you will see the content of the .iso
file as if you would burn it to CD/DVD and mount it. If you want to
copy the content to an empty partition for further work or booting, you
will need to create, format and mount it as destinationDir.
> > sudo mount -o loop fileName.iso /mnt
> >
following command will recursively copy the content of the iso file
into destinationDir and preserve the file timestamps. the rsync
command is an alternative to cp which works incrementally and/or if you
want to see progress.
> > cp -pr /mnt/* destinationDir/
> > # or: rsync -a --progress /mnt/* destinationDir/
> >
Following command will unmount the .iso file from /mnt whne you are
done with using it.
> > sudo umount /mnt
> > If you want to make this bootable, copy the content to empty disk
> > partition, make it bootable by grub2.
> > Ubuntu CDs/DVDs typically use combination of Syslinux and Grub2
> > selected by BIOS/UEFI respectively to boot from the media:
> >
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Install
> >
> > I hope it helps,
> > Tomas
> >
>
>
> Yes, but perhaps not in expected ways ;/
> For example, I could read and but not really grok your code example. It
> prompted me to spend a productive hour in man pages. That may lead to a
> solution for some problems totally unrelated to this thread.
>
>
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Install#ISOLINUX ties
> ties
> together this thread with some problems/symptoms with attempting to use
> debootstap for "my goals"
> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/02/msg00871.html).
> ).
>
>
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