[Fedora-livecd-list] Modifying ISO to include per-user files

Pedro Silva pedrofsilva at netcabo.pt
Fri Jun 27 17:44:23 UTC 2008


You are right! I didn't read your mail carefully.

Regards,

Pedro Silva

Sex, 2008-06-27 às 10:27 -0700, Todd N escreveu:
>         
>         Thanks for replying.  However, my point is that I don't want
>         to have to run livecd-creator again (takes time) every time I
>         change two or three files.  I am looking to have different
>         versions of these two or three files for each user who will be
>         using this Live CD, and to have to run livecd-creator every
>         time, although it would work, would take lots of time.
>         
>          
>         
>         That's why I am searching for a way to just change the ISO
>         directly, to modify the handful of files I wish to change and
>         be able to re-burn the CD and boot it.  The files I wish to
>         change are on the Live CD file system (/mnt/live), not on the
>         squashfs OS file system.
>         
>          
>         
>         Thanks,
>         
>         Todd
>         
>         --- On Fri, 6/27/08, Pedro Silva <pedrofsilva at netcabo.pt>
>         wrote:
>         
>         
>                 From: Pedro Silva <pedrofsilva at netcabo.pt>
>                 Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Modifying ISO to
>                 include per-user files
>                 To: todd655495 at yahoo.com,
>                 fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com
>                 Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 11:41 AM
>                 
>                 Hi !
>                 
>                 Add your scripts and changes to sections %post and %post --nochroot in
>                 your .ks file.
>                 
>                 Regards,
>                 
>                 Pedro Silva
>                 
>                 Sex, 2008-06-27 às 09:16 -0700, Todd N escreveu:
>                 > Hello,
>                 > 
>                 >  
>                 > 
>                 > After creating a LiveCD ISO image, I'd like to be able to make CDs
>                 > that are essentially identical, but have a small set of unique
>                 > per-user files.  I have tried mounting the ISO, copying its contents
>                 > to a regular directory, making my changes on the Live CD file system
>                 > (not the internal squashfs file system) and recreating the ISO using
>                 > mkisofs.  However, this new ISO (when burned to a CD) refuses to boot.
>                 > 
>                 >  
>                 > 
>                 > Is there a way I can modify the ISO image to include my per-user files
>                 > on the /mnt/live file system for each user (and have the resulting ISO
>                 > be bootable), rather than running the whole livecd-creator process
>                 > each time I want a new CD?
>                 > 
>                 >  
>                 > 
>                 > Thanks,
>                 > 
>                 > Todd
>                 > 
>                 > 
>                 > 
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