[Gllug] Raw Partitions

[Richard Cohen]

On 17/11/05, Stephen Harker <steve at pauken.co.uk> wrote:
> Richard Cohen wrote:
> > I suspect you've only ever used loopback to mount CD/DVD images...
> > using iso9660... which is, of course, an inherently read-only
> > filesystem.
> >
> > As Ben says, it's perfectly capable of handling read/write filesystems
> > - one of the more interesting and useful things you can do with it is,
> > when you really need to, download a DOS boot floppy image, mount the
> > image, copy some downloaded files (i.e. BIOS upgrade) to it, then dd
> > it to a phsyical disk.
> >
> > This of course assumes you have a floppy drive.  I don't.  I therefore
> > seem to be unable to upgrade my BIOS...
>
> Ah. You can burn a CD and use the floppy image as an EL-Torito boot
> image to make the CD bootable.
>
> mkisofs -b /path/to/floppy.img -o bootable.iso ...
>
> or something like that.
>
> Should boot just like a floppy.

Well now I feel like a fool :-)

The thought simply didn't cross my mind... which is silly, since I
hacked El Torito support in mkisofs about 6 years ago, a couple of
jobs back...  No, neither binary nor source were redistributed, and it
was long before the... unpleasantness...

Cheers
Richard
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