Editing ISO images

Marcelo Magno T. Sales marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br
Fri Aug 26 19:33:34 UTC 2005


Hi,

> Like I said, ISO9660 is a CORM (create-once-read-many;) file-system type.
> 
> I hacked together a simple shell-script which lets you edit ISO images 
> by extracting them to temp-dir, then re-creating new ISO afterwards.
> Modify variables on top to suit your needs. And of course, use at your 
> own risk, _completely_. I make no guarantees, as this was made in ten 
> minutes. You might need to enter root-password to sudo-mount the ISO.
> 
> It's only meant to be used as an example or starting point. Look at the 
> 'isoinfo' command to get info about boot-images in ISO's. You might get 
> some sector number from here. Then you might be able to copy the 
> boot-image from the ISO image by using iso-read or finding the image 
> file in the mounted ISO (I think that's possible, but not sure).
> 

If I do not find an easier way, I'll do that. However, like I said,
there are windows programs which can extract and add files to ISO
images, so it's an achievable goal. I'll search a little more to see if
I find a similar for Linux.

Thanks,

Marcelo




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