Re: isorecorder

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Steve McIntyre wrote:
> [Dropping CC to Lou as we've wandered, re-adding Thomas for the GPT
> question.]

[Lou and i are subscribed to debian-cd, obviously. :))
It seems you dropped the original poster: The7up <the7up@gmail.com>
who might indeed not be interested in partitioning.]


> For the
> sake of this kind of use-case, is it sensible when driving xorriso to
> tweak the created partition table to list the ESP as partition 1? At
> the moment we're just using "-append_partition 2 0xef
> /path/to/ESP.img", would just changing that to be partition 1 instead
> work?

That would still work, but leave the ISO fileystem without a partition
entry to mark it.

The man page of xorrisofs says:

    partition_number may be 1 to 4. Number 1 will put the whole  ISO
    image  into  the unclaimed space before partition 1.

Minimalistic experiment:

  xorriso -as mkisofs -o test.iso /bin/ls -append_partition 1 0xef /bin/cp

yields (with /bin/ls as ISO payload having ~ 120 KB and /bin/cp as
appended payload having ~150 KB):

  $ sbin/fdisk -l test.iso
  ...
  Device    Boot Start   End Sectors  Size Id Type
  test.iso1        364   659     296  148K ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

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I could tweak libisofs so that the ISO filesystem can appear as partition 2
but that would be unusual by partition 2 sitting before partition 1.

On the other hand, there is urgent need for an ISO filesystem partition
only if the reader cannot mount the base device but only its partitions.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas