ISO editing

[geese]

I've been goggling for software that can be used to edit ISO images in Linux, but I'm not getting anywhere.

Does anyone know of any ? A GUI is not necessary.

Thanks,

Geese.

[carlosponti]

i used to use a program for windows called iso buster. in linux i created a iso with a command line tool that i then used cdrecord to burn to a cd. i imagine if you find that program, maybe like mkisofs, you could possibly undo an iso. but mkisofs doesnt unpack the iso file.

[bigtomrodney]

You can mount an iso as you would any other file system. Provided you know which file is the boot record you can rebuild as mentioned with mkisofs. I believe sometimes the boot file is modified and needs to be rebuilt though.

[deltaflyer]

you need to mount the iso as a loopback device,

 mount -o loop -t iso9660 discimage.iso /mnt/loop/

you can then copy the entire contents of the iso to a temp folder of your choice & make all the files writeable
(think thats the code,working from memory,could be wrong)

andy

[marlowe]

yep, that's it

[geese]

thanks guys !

[geese]

I'm able to mount the image, but unable to make the files writable.

any advice ?

[marlowe]

i think you have to copy the files elsewhere and after you're done with the editing and all, use mkisofs as mentioned above.

[geese]

oh ok, I got it.