[ale] easy iso upgrades

[Jonathan Glass]

Can't you mount the CD's ISO on a loopback device, read-write, and make changes?  

Jonathan

Quoting Dana Powers <dana at slothlovechunk.org>:

> You cant add files to the actual cdrom, but what you _can_ do ( what
> gentoo livecd almost does ) is mount the system in a ramdisk and
> symlink to the important files on the mounted cd. You could then
> apt-get, wget, emerge, or what-have-you , whatever you want, assuming
> your networking was configured properly, and install it into the
> ramdisk as if it were any other type of rw filesystem.
> 
> I have also been thinking alot lately about os on disk systems. Very
> cool things are possible if you could fuse the device support that
> windows seems to have with the stability and no-need-for-reboot power
> of the linux kernel with the network-is-the-computer approach of
> distros like debian or gentoo.
> 
> The gentoo LiveCD w/ Unreal Tourney 2003 is mindboggling.
> 
> dpk
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Turner" <artic_knight at yahoo.com>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:07 AM
> Subject: [ale] easy iso upgrades
> 
> 
> > hey i was getting back into fooling with os's on cdroms, i was
> curious,
> > say i got a cd image and i want to add files via apt-get emerge or
> some
> > other automated installer, can you do this? like maybe chroot into
> the iso
> > image or something while its mounted on the hd i dunno, it would be
> neat
> > :-p anyone know if it cant be done? it would make, makeing boot cds
> easier
> > to compile thats for sure
> >
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