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
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
