FC3 rescue CD source?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jan 21 08:24:16 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 17:36 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:19:58 -0600, David Hoffman
> <dhoffman2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:12:43 -0600, John Mahowald <jpmahowald at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Rescue mode is a special mode of the installer. It's just isolinux + anaconda.
> > >
> > > Install anaconda and check out the source, it's in python.
> > >
> > 
> > What's wrong with downloading the Rescue CD ISO Image and just booting
> > from that?
> > 
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso
> 
> Sounds like the OP wants to add to it? I'm guessing he wants extra
> utilities or something. Porbably that's presumptuous of me, but I'll
> go on ...
> 
> Maybe I misunderstand the question, but you should be able to download
> the iso, mount it with that loopback trick (I don't remember it, but
> google or search this list's archive for "mount iso image") and edit
> in place if you want to change some files, etc. on it. Then when you
> burn the iso to the CD, it'll have your new files on it.

That won't work because an ISO filesystem, even when loopback-mounted,
is not writable. You'd have to copy the files out of the ISO filesystem,
do whatever mods you wanted and then make a new ISO and burn it, being
careful to ensure it's still bootable.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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