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Posted: Jan. 22 2006,21:11 QUOTE

What I have:
A LiveCD with 2.1
A USB pendrive with 2.1b 5-way

What I want to do:
Burn a new cd with 2.1b without having to download a whole new ISO file.

My approach:
I used the cd to boot from USB using the "fromhd=/dev/sda1 qemu frugal" cheatcodes.  That part went fine.  Then I copied the image on /dev/cdrom to my harddrive with "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=mydsl.iso"  I did this on my harddrive because I don't have enough memory to do all this in RAM space.

So now I mount the iso with "mount -o loop -t iso9660 mydsl.iso /mnt/test" and I mount my pendrive.  So far, so good.  I'm excited because all I should need to do now to make this a "current" image is to copy the KNOPPIX file from /mnt/sda1/KNOPPIX to /mnt/test/KNOPPIX, but when I try, I get informed that my mounted ISO is read-only, and I can't remedy that even with a sudo.

So.  I had a good idea, but I couldn't get it to work.  Is it not possible to have RW access on a mounted ISO image?  And just copying over the KNOPPIX file will effectively upgrade it right?


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Posted: Jan. 23 2006,04:28 QUOTE

Quote (cmanb @ Jan. 22 2006,13:11)
Is it not possible to have RW access on a mounted ISO image?

Turns out there is in fact a -rw option to mount that mounts the device with read/write permissions.  In this case, however, it seems to do bupkis.

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