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 1R77AY-0002Zc-Uo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:56:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE3F121C1F2; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:55:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A8121C1E4 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:52:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzt12 with SMTP id zt12so4546467bkb.40 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:52:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vovRu+94toE6HIgV571vdd+QbC0Gy1ruzhE8DrTI5Vs=; b=AkM0ZXEf+ZT5Wr8vUXzcd9RNB9iH19doSpLvdk6grf9fGRMweB5zPasKYkGsuNRDIy J8ZesSxlnHihOLjfXq3syZRzo+r/rR1soVzH3K1iJTZnQGpVeqg0fmU6s4pYSn6FJMsx Nf3LPAyt4sxQ9EfdsQcWnHEG70VASlDelumho= 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 Received: by 10.204.152.153 with SMTP id g25mr2781403bkw.285.1316789572172; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.177.199 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:52:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201109231534.46063.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <20110923134211.45dc389a@toxic.dbnet> <201109231534.46063.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:52:52 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying LiveCDs From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 26f68887862a416b111a333012f0d592 On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Mick wrote: > On Friday 23 Sep 2011 13:58:22 Michael Mol wrote: >> /rant > > This is because Google uses geo-targeting to determine what results you m= ay be > interested in (assuming your geo-location from your IP address), and > > because of the Google data centre that you are getting connected to (upda= tes > of search results and their ranking is not instantaneous across the globe= ), > and > > because if you are logged in to Google (mail, et al) your search history = will > bias the results you may receive, and > > because recent searches (whether logged in or not) are cached and will af= fect > what you're getting served. > > > People searching for pubs in the UK are bound to get different results to > people searching for pubs in Australia. > > Of course if you want to search for pubs in Australia while you are brows= ing > from the UK things are going to get tricky ... > > In such cases you want to add: > > The location in the search results: =C2=A0e.g. pubs + Australia (to filte= r the UK > Google results for Australian pubs), or go to www.google.au and then sear= ch > from there for pubs (Australian Google results for pubs). =C2=A0There cou= ld be > 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 Googl= e TLD > to determine the country the results are from and search accordingly. All great info, if I'm looking for a physical location. Yeah, when I'm looking for the address of a music, I'll search for "the intersection in Grand Rapids, MI". GeoIP and other details take care of the rest, and it actually comes up with the place I saw JoCo and TMBG last weekend. >> 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. >> >> How would I extract boot_catalog and eltorito_boot_image from an existin= g >> 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 Loopbacks are easy enough. I wasn't sure that the files in question were going to be on the filesystem, or were somewhere else in the ISO image. I was thinking analogously to boot sectors on floppy disks and hard disks; some data isn't directly visible on a filesystem. > -- > Regards, > Mick > --=20 :wq