On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.b...@gmx.net> wrote: >>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=build+your+own+live+cd+gentoo >> >>Not so useful, thanks. Google fails me regularly. Personalized >>searches are getting to be a real sore spot for me; not just mine, but >>those of people pointing me at Google assuming my searches for the >>same keywords will get the same results. Particular grating is when >>someone sends me a link to a search, then the link to what I was >>looking for, and says something like "first hit". My first *page* >>didn't even have that link on it. > > well... i didn't know if it was ok to post links to unofficial gentoo > resources on this list which is why i went with the search.
Posting direct links should be absolutely fine, IMO. My fiancee shares my frustrations with LMGTFY responses; she'll google for a phrase, and the first few results will be forum and newsgroup mirrors of threads along the lines of: "How do I do $x" "Google for "$phrase_just_googled_for" > >>> alternatively you could use catalyst: >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ >>> >>> or you just mount the iso, modify it, run mkisofs on it and burn it. >>> the mkisofs options you are looking for are -b and -c. >> >>I knew there was going to be something I wasn't going to know, and it >>looks like the values passed to -b and -c are it. > > again, the hint you maybe didn't get was: you will have to do some of > the work yourself. If I wasn't willing to do some of the work myself, I wouldn't be using Gentoo. I'd be using Ubuntu. Or wearign diapers. Thanks. > >>I don't want to build a CD from scratch (and doing so looks like it >>would require setting up a fully "generic" box to build). I just want >>to add two files to an existing ISO. >> >>How would I extract boot_catalog and eltorito_boot_image from an >>existing ISO? > > you can actually omit -c i think. use isolinux.bin (should be on the > livecd) as boot image. Huh. Ok; when I glanced through the man page for mkisofs, I got the impression that the files added by -b and -c wouldn't appear on the filesystem. I don't know how El Torido actually works, at the ISO level, I only know it's something like a bootable floppy image that a capable BIOS loads and executes. -- :wq
