Re: [mythtv-users] HOW CAN THIS BE THIS HARD!?!?!?! (adding 2 files to a bootable iso)
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:26:17 -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote: Using nothing but Linux I must modify the iso to add 2 files and then burn. I have 1 CD-RW to do this with. I've tried for HOURS to find a solution!!! How can this be this hard? http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk Doesn't even need a cd drive - the generated image can be booted directly from grub off the hardisk. Great for machines have neither cd nor floppy, and even those that do. And it's not dell specific. I use it on all my machines. Cheers, Martin. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HOW CAN THIS BE THIS HARD!?!?!?! (adding 2 files to a bootable iso)
Martin Ebourne wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:26:17 -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote: Using nothing but Linux I must modify the iso to add 2 files and then burn. I have 1 CD-RW to do this with. I've tried for HOURS to find a solution!!! How can this be this hard? http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk Doesn't even need a cd drive - the generated image can be booted directly from grub off the hardisk. Great for machines have neither cd nor floppy, and even those that do. And it's not dell specific. I use it on all my machines. Cheers, Martin. Question, if you don't have a CD drive how do you get the ISO from the CD onto the HD? To answer the other question, have you looked at mounting a loop device ? http://people.debian.org/~psg/ddg/node159.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] HOW CAN THIS BE THIS HARD!?!?!?! (adding 2 files to a bootable iso)
My MythTV box needs the BIOS updated. This can only be done from Windows, or a Windows 98 boot disk. My MythTV Box doesn't have a floppy drive. (They are ugly and hold next to nothing.) So I got the win98SE boot iso from http://www.allbootdisks.com/index.php?option=com_remositoryItemid=42func=selectfolderfilecatid=10 Using nothing but Linux I must modify the iso to add 2 files and then burn. I have 1 CD-RW to do this with. I've tried for HOURS to find a solution!!! How can this be this hard? -- Thank you for your time, --== R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y ==-- Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use Microsoft internet products. Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer Outlook/Outlook Express. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HOW CAN THIS BE THIS HARD!?!?!?! (adding 2 files to a bootable iso)
On Monday 22 August 2005 06:26 pm, Richard Bronosky wrote: My MythTV box needs the BIOS updated. This can only be done from Windows, or a Windows 98 boot disk. My MythTV Box doesn't have a floppy drive. (They are ugly and hold next to nothing.) So I got the win98SE boot iso from http://www.allbootdisks.com/index.php?option=com_remositoryItemid=42func= selectfolderfilecatid=10 Using nothing but Linux I must modify the iso to add 2 files and then burn. I have 1 CD-RW to do this with. I've tried for HOURS to find a solution!!! How can this be this hard? Ha! Ain't that a coincidence! I had to do the same thing and it was the easiest thing. I used different instructions though: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ You'll need a windows2000/xp to create a bootable iso. Don't know if that works for you. IvanK. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HOW CAN THIS BE THIS HARD!?!?!?! (adding 2 files to a bootable iso)
I don't know if you've tried this or not, but you can try mounting the ISO using the loopback device, something like (the directory /mnt/iso must exist first): mount -t iso -o loop filename.iso /mnt/iso You'll need to be root to do this. After you unmount the ISO, your changes should be in the ISO image, ready to burn. The only thing, is that I don't know if this preserves the El Torito boot information. I would guess it's part of the ISO, but I don't know how that's laid out. (Also, if the ISO contains multiple sections (like a bootable floppy portion which gets mapped to A:, and a hard drive-like portion that gets mapped to somewhere else, well, I definitely don't know how to deal with that). -- Joe --- Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My MythTV box needs the BIOS updated. This can only be done from Windows, or a Windows 98 boot disk. My MythTV Box doesn't have a floppy drive. (They are ugly and hold next to nothing.) So I got the win98SE boot iso from http://www.allbootdisks.com/index.php?option=com_remositoryItemid=42func=selectfolderfilecatid=10 Using nothing but Linux I must modify the iso to add 2 files and then burn. I have 1 CD-RW to do this with. I've tried for HOURS to find a solution!!! How can this be this hard? -- Thank you for your time, --== R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y ==-- Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use Microsoft internet products. Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer Outlook/Outlook Express. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HOW CAN THIS BE THIS HARD!?!?!?! (adding 2 files to a bootable iso)
Joe Votour wrote: I don't know if you've tried this or not, but you can try mounting the ISO using the loopback device, something like (the directory /mnt/iso must exist first): mount -t iso -o loop filename.iso /mnt/iso iso9660 filesystem is readonly, so you will need to regenerate the iso. You can still do this step to access the files for rebuilding it. (Note the type is iso9660 not iso) So mount the iso, and copy all the files out of the iso into a prototype directory where you make your changes. Something like rsync -a ./src/ ./dst/ would do the trick. (Also, if the ISO contains multiple sections (like a bootable floppy portion which gets mapped to A:, and a hard drive-like portion that gets mapped to somewhere else, well, I definitely don't know how to deal with that). The iso is probably a floppy emulated cd. See if one of the files in the iso is a floppy image. If you can't find it, just download a boot floppy from one of the bootdisk sites, and place it inside the prototype directory where you are making changes. Then rebuild the iso: mkisofs -b ./path_inside_cdproto_dir/bootfloppy.img \ -o bootcd.iso ./cdproto_dir/ Burn that. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HOW CAN THIS BE THIS HARD!?!?!?! (adding 2 files to a bootable iso)
Oh for crying out loud think laterally... Download a bootable win98 iso with included CD drivers... Burn it and boot the mythbox with it... Take the disk out and burn it again with the flash util and the flash bin file (you may need 10MB juck file to pad out the CD) Stick it back in the mythbox and run the flash util and reflash the bios... My MythTV box needs the BIOS updated. This can only be done from Windows, or a Windows 98 boot disk. My MythTV Box doesn't have a floppy drive. (They are ugly and hold next to nothing.) So I got the win98SE boot iso from http://www.allbootdisks.com/index.php?option=com_remositoryItemid=42func=selectfolderfilecatid=10 Using nothing but Linux I must modify the iso to add 2 files and then burn. I have 1 CD-RW to do this with. I've tried for HOURS to find a solution!!! How can this be this hard? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HOW CAN THIS BE THIS HARD!?!?!?! (adding 2 files to a bootable iso)
There was a great discussion with a billion different ways ( which doesn't always help, but hey) on slashdot a few months ago Why Do We Have to Use a Floppy to Flash BIOS? http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/29/2135208 I found a lot of neat howto/ideas command line nuggets in the comments (in between the troll posts, and hot grits of course!) e. -- http://www.byopvr.com On 8/22/05, Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh for crying out loud think laterally... Download a bootable win98 iso with included CD drivers... Burn it and boot the mythbox with it... Take the disk out and burn it again with the flash util and the flash bin file (you may need 10MB juck file to pad out the CD) Stick it back in the mythbox and run the flash util and reflash the bios... My MythTV box needs the BIOS updated. This can only be done from Windows, or a Windows 98 boot disk. My MythTV Box doesn't have a floppy drive. (They are ugly and hold next to nothing.) So I got the win98SE boot iso from http://www.allbootdisks.com/index.php?option=com_remositoryItemid=42func=selectfolderfilecatid=10 Using nothing but Linux I must modify the iso to add 2 files and then burn. I have 1 CD-RW to do this with. I've tried for HOURS to find a solution!!! How can this be this hard? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HOW CAN THIS BE THIS HARD!?!?!?! (adding 2 files to a bootable iso)
On 8/22/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using nothing but Linux I must modify the iso to add 2 files and then burn. I have 1 CD-RW to do this with. I've tried for HOURS to find a solution!!! How can this be this hard? You spent hours? 5 seconds with google and the query linux bios boot cd yields this: http://www.nenie.org/misc/flashbootcd.html and many other results. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
