[gentoo-dev] making an 'iso' file

[gentoo-dev] making an 'iso' file

[Jungmin Seo]

hi,

i am, at the moment, wrinting an article about gentoo for a linux 
magazine in korea.
However, i am trying to make an 'iso' file with both 1.2 and 1.4 stage 
files.  This
is the first time to make an iso file, so that i need help from you..

what would be the best way to do it? and i would like to know how to do 
it..

i was going to add 1.4rc's stage files to a 1.2 iso, but i do not know 
howto.

thanks for your help in advance.. (it is quite urgent :)

J Seo

Re: [gentoo-dev] making an 'iso' file

[Greg Corcoran]

If you don't want to bother with loopbacks and other command line stuff
I find that CDBakeOven works well for this.

emerge cdbakeoven

This is a KDE CD Burner but you can use it to just create ISOs too.

Greg


On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 08:08, Jungmin Seo wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i am, at the moment, wrinting an article about gentoo for a linux 
> magazine in korea.
> However, i am trying to make an 'iso' file with both 1.2 and 1.4 stage 
> files.  This
> is the first time to make an iso file, so that i need help from you..
> 
> what would be the best way to do it? and i would like to know how to do 
> it..
> 
> i was going to add 1.4rc's stage files to a 1.2 iso, but i do not know 
> howto.
> 
> thanks for your help in advance.. (it is quite urgent :)
> 
> J Seo
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] making an 'iso' file

[Fred Van Andel]

At 12:08 AM 9/18/02 +0900, you wrote:
>hi,
>
>i am, at the moment, wrinting an article about gentoo for a linux magazine 
>in korea.
>However, i am trying to make an 'iso' file with both 1.2 and 1.4 stage 
>files.  This
>is the first time to make an iso file, so that i need help from you..
>
>what would be the best way to do it? and i would like to know how to do it..
>
>i was going to add 1.4rc's stage files to a 1.2 iso, but i do not know howto.
>
>thanks for your help in advance.. (it is quite urgent :)
>
>J Seo
I use:
       mkisofs -joliet -o /name/of/iso/file.iso -log-file 
/name/of/log/file.log -rock -volid volume-name-here /name/of/data/directory
or at a minimum:
       mkisofs -joliet -o /name/of/iso/file.iso  /name/of/data/directory
however i recommend adding both -rock and -joliet
       -rock will add unix specific info such as uid/gid permissions etc
       -joliet will generate file/directroy names that are more friendly to 
windows.
More info can be found in the man files.

Fred Van Andel

Re: [gentoo-dev] making an 'iso' file

[Christian Bartl]

Does 'dd -if=/dev/cdrom -of=foo.iso' create an iso-image?
if no, are there any specification how iso-images have to look like
(header ...)?

christian

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:08, Jungmin Seo wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i am, at the moment, wrinting an article about gentoo for a linux 
> magazine in korea.
> However, i am trying to make an 'iso' file with both 1.2 and 1.4 stage 
> files.  This
> is the first time to make an iso file, so that i need help from you..
> 
> what would be the best way to do it? and i would like to know how to do 
> it..
> 
> i was going to add 1.4rc's stage files to a 1.2 iso, but i do not know 
> howto.
> 
> thanks for your help in advance.. (it is quite urgent :)
> 
> J Seo
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
> 

Re: [gentoo-dev] making an 'iso' file

[Fredrik Jagenheim]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:01:36PM +0200, Christian Bartl wrote:
> Does 'dd -if=/dev/cdrom -of=foo.iso' create an iso-image?

Yes, if you have a CDROM in your drive that is. What this command does
is a byte for byte copy of the image on the /dev/cdrom, which if you
have an CD in your drive, usually means you will end up with an iso
image in 'foo.iso'.

I will ofcourse not create an iso-image from scratch for you.

> if no, are there any specification how iso-images have to look like
> (header ...)?

Yes, there are specifications for both the main iso layout (Red Book,
IIRC. Some color anyway) and the various extensions (Joliet,
rockridge). For more information, I guess 'mkisofs' source is a safe
bet. ;)