From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R76ta-0006nu-0C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:38:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A5D521C191; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:38:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CDF21C0DF for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:37:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so4771524wyf.40 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:37:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=T75eOmHD9hH3PiAsfI9nEAtl6qHk+IUI9tfwxbY8bE8=; b=sKsqdhJ3ocR2h3AYtZ4DGDwdseHzKY7ACgEndYIOMQ/IEIhHrpoJjIglj1RfxjW68H aXtDWBMu4eeeMj4J6GjjCwF5vHfbS9S97YNbSC1mFfj5vaYJ4oom3S6vhlmo6ZW0Mt4I +FX2pHCkfXDFzrsFHkCiEsiPSzWq1A0kupl98= Received: by 10.216.80.69 with SMTP id j47mr5395010wee.102.1316788622652; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet ([213.123.142.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l40sm2194379wbm.10.2011.09.23.07.37.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:37:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying LiveCDs Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:33:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110923134211.45dc389a@toxic.dbnet> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3006607.LSQfBd6D8y"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201109231534.46063.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: afd23a5fdbd595eeb1a5692188dc1898 --nextPart3006607.LSQfBd6D8y Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 23 Sep 2011 13:58:22 Michael Mol wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Jonas de Buhr =20 wrote: > >>What I'd like to do is drop the stage3 and Portage snapshots onto the > >>ISO before burning, but I've never done anything with mastering > >>bootable discs. Could someone provide me with some pointers? > >> > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=3Dbuild+your+own+live+cd+gentoo >=20 > Not so useful, thanks. Google fails me regularly. Personalized > searches are getting to be a real sore spot for me; not just mine, but > those of people pointing me at Google assuming my searches for the > same keywords will get the same results. Particular grating is when > someone sends me a link to a search, then the link to what I was > looking for, and says something like "first hit". My first *page* > didn't even have that link on it. >=20 > /rant This is because Google uses geo-targeting to determine what results you may= be=20 interested in (assuming your geo-location from your IP address), and=20 because of the Google data centre that you are getting connected to (update= s=20 of search results and their ranking is not instantaneous across the globe),= =20 and because if you are logged in to Google (mail, et al) your search history wi= ll=20 bias the results you may receive, and because recent searches (whether logged in or not) are cached and will affe= ct=20 what you're getting served. People searching for pubs in the UK are bound to get different results to=20 people searching for pubs in Australia. Of course if you want to search for pubs in Australia while you are browsin= g=20 from the UK things are going to get tricky ... In such cases you want to add: The location in the search results: e.g. pubs + Australia (to filter the U= K=20 Google results for Australian pubs), or go to www.google.au and then search= =20 from there for pubs (Australian Google results for pubs). There could be=20 other more sophisticated ways but can't recall them off hand. Now, if someone sends you a non-lmgtfy.com link you can look at the Google = TLD=20 to determine the country the results are from and search accordingly. > > SCNR :P >=20 > shortcircuit:12@serenity~ > Fri Sep 23 08:44 AM > !501 #1 j0 ?0 $ wtf is scnr > SCNR: sorry, could not resist >=20 > Ah. >=20 > > alternatively you could use catalyst: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ > >=20 > > or you just mount the iso, modify it, run mkisofs on it and burn it. > > the mkisofs options you are looking for are -b and -c. >=20 > I knew there was going to be something I wasn't going to know, and it > looks like the values passed to -b and -c are it. >=20 > I don't want to build a CD from scratch (and doing so looks like it > would require setting up a fully "generic" box to build). I just want > to add two files to an existing ISO. >=20 > How would I extract boot_catalog and eltorito_boot_image from an existing > ISO? Mount the ISO with loopback and then navigate into it as a normal fs: # mkdir /mnt/iso # mount -o loop LiveCD.iso /mnt/iso # ls -la /mnt/iso # cp /mnt/iso/some_file =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3006607.LSQfBd6D8y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk58mQUACgkQVTDTR3kpaLar9wCfQEk1hIUuUP7BcPNvpjokfOCj h9oAn2mqqqD93aqYKl3CGovuQLyH3Z3w =YyLE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3006607.LSQfBd6D8y--