Mounting an ISO Image & Editing it
 

HI

Can any one plz show me how to:

1. Mount my Fedora image ( FC_5i386 ), which is on my CD ROM onto a point on My FedorCore5
2. Enable Writing / Editing to it
3. Burning it back as an image???

thanks heaps

linuxnewbie.

You'll need to be root to do most of this. Firstly, create a directory to mount it into:

Then mount it:

You now have a normal directory structure representing the ISO under /media/FC5. It behaves as any other directory. Read/write to/from it at will, the ISO is kept up-to-date as changes are made. In this respect, you can think of the ISO being just like another hard disk, but instead of being a physical disk it's stored in a single file instead.

When you're done, unmount it:

And then to burn it (assuming this is a CD, not a DVD)

If it is a DVD, you'll want to do this instead:

Disclaimer: this is all from memory so I'm not certain about the syntax for growisofs but the rest should be good.

HI


thanks for that mate....that looks pretty simple....but for the fact that i wont allow me to delete any files from the mounted FC5 folder!! :(

wat next???

Krish.

Do

in the mounted folder - do the files show up as read-only or read-write? Read-write will show up as -rw- or drwx, read-only as -r-- or dr--.

hi

All the folders appear as read-write, but the files appear as read only!!

when i try to delete some RPM's from the RPM foler, it comes up saying : " Read only file system "

waiting for ur solution.

regards

try doing

This should recursively make everything read-write.

also, tried a chmod ..but that dosent seem to do anything.....come up with a message saying : read only

Just Copying one of all the error lines that i got...

chmod: changing permissions of `repodata/primary.xml.gz': Read-only file system

Still no luck!!! :(

OR DO u think doing the following is a better Option???

cp -a /media/FC5 /tmp/
Make all changes in /tmp/FC5. ( this i'm able to modify successfully ), probably bcoz its no longer a image & is just a directory....

now i have trouble figuring out how to use the mkisofs command!! :(

please advice...

The iso9660 filesystem is read-only. You will need to copy the files to another directory tree, make your changes and then burn a new image. You might want to read through the cdrom burning howto at http://www.tldp.org web site.

Thanks heaps for that mate

Have fixed it now....... have my own CD1 up & running....

u have been really helpful...

much appreciated..

have a gud weekend ahead

regards

newbie.

i didnt want to start a new thread so i am asking the question i have here....

is there anyway to mount a .bin or .cue image file onto fedora core 5??

Has anyone found a an ISO editor that works under linux ?

As far as mkisofs is concerned, is it possible to include the boot code as well ? I am trying to edit one of the bootable linux CDs. If I mount the iso image on a directory and copy the contents to another directory then, use mkisofs, would it produce a bootable CD as the original ?

kissme1: I think you have to convert the bin/cue file to an iso. I've done it once before and it worked. I probably searched using: convert bin to iso

What if there is no bin/cue file ?