On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Hey. I like old fashioned. How does that handle the 'bootable' part of the CD? I presume there is the equivalent of an MBR on a CD so the PC can get started. Is that visible copying the root of the drive? (I'm at a Windows box as I write this. Sorry!) - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
