Re: [Dorset] Writing a Boot sector to a CD

[d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk]

On 09 December 2010 at 07:47 d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
wrote:

 There is only one problem.  I can stick a CD in the hole and open it using any
 decent burning program, such as k3b or Brasero on Linux or Nero or Roxio on
 Winblows.  I can then add my files and burn a new image.  What I don't know is
 how to copy the boot sector of the original image.  If I copy the CD in its
 entirety, that comes as part of the deal.  If I build a new image as described
 above, all I get is a data CD.
We now have a method of doing this using TKZip in Windows (or some other similar
tool in Linux) to unpick the files from the compressed parts of the  ISO and
mkisofs (under cygwin in Windows) to create the new ISO once the additional
files have been added.
 
Terry Coles
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Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 362, Issue 4

[Brian R Masterman]

RE: Also, it would be nice to stitch the scripts into the ISO 'off line' so to
speak.

I often do changes to an .iso file by mounting the file;

mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /mnt

copy the folder to build folder and do the changes, the write a new disk from 
that folder

Brian M



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