[plug] virtual drive

[Craig Dyke]

bob wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:26 am, Mike Holland wrote:
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>>bob wrote:
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>>>Something I've wondered about and not been able to find an answer to
>>>googling - Is it possible to mount an .iso writable? ie you can take
>>>one of
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>>No. You need UDF instead for that.
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>Yes, UDF looks very cool. No, it doesent quite do what I was wanting. Thanks 
>for pointing it out though, I shal certainly  be able to use it for some 
>other purposes.
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>>>the "live CD" images and add your own set of utils mearly by moving the
>>>files into the mounted iso
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>>You can add extra files to a CD, if it isnt finalised. See the mkisofs
>>man page, or growisofs. '-M' option.
>>   It works by adding an extra session.
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>Trouble is that most .iso's I've seen are images of finalised CDs. I am 
>wanting to take something like the Ultimate Boot CD and add my own utils to 
>the system. (and of course UBCD has as part of its docs how to do this 
>using mkisofs... I was just hoping that there was a lazy way of doing it 
>using mount loop :) 
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>Thanks for the feedback in any case :).
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I was wondering if it were possible to also mount other types as well, 
perhaps cue/bin and so on?

Craig