On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > This is somewhat off topic. Ignore if it's of no interest. > > I've got a DOS program called SpinRite that does low-level testing > of hard drives. I have the program in two forms: > > 1) A bootable CD that just runs the program > 2) A stand alone DOS executable that can be run from a CD. > > Both of the above run fine under FreeDOS. Problem is I don't know > how to load device drivers for USB unless I can edit a config.sys > file, create a new ISO and then burn a new CD. So... > > 1) Is there a way for me to read the bootable ISO image into a > directory on my machine > 2) Edit the files > 3) Make a new ISO image from the directory (mkisofs?) > > This seems 'relatively' straight forward. I haven't built it yet > but I found isomaster in portage. Is it a good tool? Should I just do > this from the command line and if so how? How do the Gentoo packagers > put together the install CD images?
Call me old-fashioned but I don't see anything wrong with just copying the root of the CD to an empty directory, editing the files and then using mkisofs to re-create a new ISO. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
