[CLUE-Tech] Cool CD trick

[Tom Poindexter]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:19:02PM -0700, Grant Johnson wrote:
> I just found a COOL trick for using ISO's.  You can mount them, without 
> ever even buring them, as long as you have loopback file support in you 
> kernel.
> 
> OK, now......  How do I make an ISO from a bunch of files?   How about 
> ripping one from a data CD?  So many cool things to play with....

You probably want mkisofs(1), no?

man mkisofs:
...
       mkisofs  takes  a  snapshot of a given directory tree, and
       generates a binary  image  which  will  correspond  to  an
       ISO9660  or HFS filesystem when written to a block device.

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Tom Poindexter
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