GMorris
10-01-2001, 10:33 AM
Hello, all,
Recently I downloaded RedHat Linux 7.1. With a cable modem it takes about a day to get all 4 .iso files. My CD burner stopped burning, so I can't make the CD's. However, Linux will install fine from the iso files if you tell it where they reside (and you need a big hard drive to accomodate them!). After installation, you can get to the contents of the files and install things you missed on the first go-round, if needed. The mount command I found was:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 <filename.iso> </mnt/dir>
This works, and I might add, it works fine. You can look through the files just as if they were a drive, extract them with cp, etc. Where I run into a problem is trying to CHANGE or ADD any files to the .iso. No matter what I do to the mount command itself, there is no write access even for root. Now, I would like to add or change certain files within the .iso file, or just cp the whole thing to a regular drive, and re-compile it to an .iso file with my changes/additions. Any gurus out there that can help with this? I tried extracting the files and installing like that, but the linux install didn't like that too much, and demanded the intact .iso files. Possibly, there is a parameter that I could pass to the install program or something? I really don't know what else to do at this point and am open to suggestions! Thanks,
Gary Morris
gmorris61@carolina.rr.com
Recently I downloaded RedHat Linux 7.1. With a cable modem it takes about a day to get all 4 .iso files. My CD burner stopped burning, so I can't make the CD's. However, Linux will install fine from the iso files if you tell it where they reside (and you need a big hard drive to accomodate them!). After installation, you can get to the contents of the files and install things you missed on the first go-round, if needed. The mount command I found was:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 <filename.iso> </mnt/dir>
This works, and I might add, it works fine. You can look through the files just as if they were a drive, extract them with cp, etc. Where I run into a problem is trying to CHANGE or ADD any files to the .iso. No matter what I do to the mount command itself, there is no write access even for root. Now, I would like to add or change certain files within the .iso file, or just cp the whole thing to a regular drive, and re-compile it to an .iso file with my changes/additions. Any gurus out there that can help with this? I tried extracting the files and installing like that, but the linux install didn't like that too much, and demanded the intact .iso files. Possibly, there is a parameter that I could pass to the install program or something? I really don't know what else to do at this point and am open to suggestions! Thanks,
Gary Morris
gmorris61@carolina.rr.com