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I have a old.iso already extracted on a flash drive. I replaced few executables (say hello) in the flash drive. Now I want to recopy the modified flash drive contents ...
  1. 05-06-2009 #1
    bvinay
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    Help creating. iso

    I have a old.iso already extracted on a flash drive. I replaced few executables (say hello) in the flash drive. Now I want to recopy the modified flash drive contents and create new.iso.

    While trying to copy the contents the symlinks are present. I am not sure if 'cpio' would be of any help, though I tried using it and got incorrect syntax, searched man pages and retried but no luck

    Thanks for any help.
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  2. 05-07-2009 #2
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    The command to do this is 'dd' - it will take a bytewise copy of the media and dump it wherever you like, even to a file if that's what you want. Take a look down its man page.
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    dd if=/dev/sda of=$HOME/file_name.iso
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    See the "mkisofs" command - read the manpage: man mkisofs
    That is the preferred way to make an ISO image that other systems can read properly, or that you can mount as a virtual disc if necessary.
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    If I'm reading this right, you just want to pull files from and ISO and replace them with other files... correct? Have you looked at Iso Master?
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