[Fedora-livecd-list] Making content available on both sides of the live CD

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at creativecommons.org
Tue Feb 5 01:09:41 UTC 2008


On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Douglas McClendon wrote:

> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Tim Wood wrote:
>> 
>>> I think you're looking for something like this.  If bob had a file called 
>>> 'my_file.html' in his home directory, he'd do this to copy it to the root 
>>> of the cd:
>>> 
>>> %post --nochroot
>>> cp /home/bob/my_file.html $LIVE_ROOT/
>> 
>> Right - but if we're talking about gigabytes of photos and music, then 
>> that's less than ideal space-wise.  Hence my bringing up Hybrid CDs.
>
> So it sounds like you really want your gigabytes to be on the HFS side of the 
> *DVD* right?  That certainly isn't supported at the moment, though I suppose 
> could be made to work.  (I have no idea what a hybrid looks like 
> (automounting and such) to the system currently).

Er, let me be clear - sorry!

I don't actually want a Hybrid disc.  I want the data to be 
available in the live Linux system, as well as Windows and OS X.  Windows 
and OS X can read ISO9660 just fine, so there's no need for HFS.

> This may be the relevent post, but doesn't add too much-
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2008-January/msg00080.html

Thanks - that is relevant, and now I feel silly for having asked the same 
question in a separate thread earlier today. (-:

To ask a question that I think *hasn't* been asked:

Let's say I want to store big files in the ISO and symlink them to the 
user's $HOME.  What's the appropriate way to, as part of the bootup 
process, mount the DVD?  I noticed that, upon booting the live system, 
"mount /dev/cdrom" simply told me that it /dev/cdrom wasn't in the fstab. 
The /dev/cdrom symlink was set properly, so I could just add /dev/cdrom to 
the fstab myself or issue a mount command from an init script.  But is 
that really the right way to automatically mount the disc from which the 
live system is booting?

-- Asheesh.

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