From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 12 21:13:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0379C16A469 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:13:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Received: from balder-227.proper.com (Balder-227.Proper.COM [192.245.12.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5EB313C487 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:13:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Received: from [10.20.30.108] (dsl-63-249-108-169.cruzio.com [63.249.108.169]) (authenticated bits=0) by balder-227.proper.com (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l6CLDabj075270 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:13:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20070712205321.GA42450@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20070712205321.GA42450@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:13:35 -0700 To: Roland Smith From: Paul Hoffman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a mounted ISO image of a CD-ROM writable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:13:39 -0000 At 10:53 PM +0200 7/12/07, Roland Smith wrote: >On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:38:10PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: >> Greetings again. I want to make an ISO image of the FreeBSD distribution >> with a boot.config file that contains "/boot/loader -h". I have the ISO >> image as a file on my hard drive, and have mounted it on /mnt: >> >> mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /path/to/my/bootable.iso -u 0 >> mount -w -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt >> >> However, when I try to create files on /mnt, I get: >> >> -su: boot.config: Read-only file system >> >> How do I make it so that I can write into /mnt so that I can then later >> save those back to the ISO image? > >Try the sysutils/isomaster port. Er, thanks, but I am running on a text-only system. Looks nice, however. Other thoughts? I would hope this would be as easy as "run this program to change the image to read-write". --Paul Hoffman