Re: Extracting CD boot loaders
T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know ways to extract the CD boot loaders under Linux?
>
> The reason that I'm asking is that, many .iso files come with size much
> less than 700M. So it would be a waste of CD spaces to burn them as-is --
> I want to add more files to them (then pack them up again as iso) before
> burning them. So the most important step is to extract the CD boot
> loaders (mainly for Windows based bootable .iso images), so as to make it
> bootable again.
>
> Thanks
>
isomaster is one possibility, that works quite well (see tools menu).
aptitude show isomaster
Package: isomaster
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.3.5-1
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Maintainer: David Johnson <dj@david-web.co.uk>
Uncompressed Size: 1069k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4),
libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1),
libglib2.0-0 (>=
2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0)
Suggests: mousepad
Description: A graphical CD image editor
You can use isomaster to:
* add files to an image
* extract files from an image
* delete files from an image
Homepage: http://www.littlesvr.ca/isomaster/
Command line tool try "man geteltorito". I haven't tried this one (it's
part of the genisoimage package).
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