Questions tagged [iso]
ISO 9660 is a filesystem designed for use on CD-ROMs. An “ISO image” is a file that contains an ISO 9660 filesystem and can be burnt to a CD.
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Mount ISO contained in Docker to host volume
Is there any way to mount an ISO contained in a Docker so that the contents of the ISO are available to the host machine?
I can do this on a Linux host by using a bind mount with shared as the bind ...
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How to make a fully bootable ISO from Alpine Linux Edge?
I would like to make an alpine installation iso which has the following attributes:
During installation it has an answerfile so that the setup process (the setup script) takes those default inputs ...
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How to Install Linux without CD/USB
I have a machine with no CD/DVD drive. I do not own a USB. This device has only 32gigs of memory. I have a Kali iso that I want to install on it. The notebook currently runs on Debian. Any ideas on ...
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Does Linux has a fundamental limitation about using multiple cd/dvd drives simultaneously?
I have two cd/dvd drives in my laptop. One is an external USB drive and the other is the SATA drive that came with it.
And I can't burn two DVDs at the same time in both of them at full speed no ...
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GRUB Boot ISO/disk image from NTFS partition
I'm trying to boot an ISO containing a Linux live system from an existing NTFS partition on a PC. The PC has UEFI, and the hard disk is partitioned with GPT, so GRUB4DOS is not an option. Can this be ...
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Using an rasberrypi to make an bootable usb?
my pc broke and i have an rasbery pi .
i want to write the iso of an recovery system (https://www.hirensbootcd.org) so i can repair my system more specific plan B
grabing the license key in the ...
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Grub2 Centos 7 installation from ISO on hard-disk drive
I could not get working a grub2 custom item menu for installing Centos 7 on a VM.
Actual scenario from lsblk command:
1 disk (sda), with two partitions: sda1 mounted on /BOOT, sda2 mounted on / (dev/...
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md5sum of /dev/sr1 different than ISO image?
After writing an ISO image using Brasero, I discovered that the md5sum of the target DVD is different than the ISO image, despite no readability errors.
What has caused that difference?
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Boot custom CentOS 7 Live ISO from hard disk to RAM
I'm trying to create a customized package of CentOS 7, which could be placed in an internal hard drive of a non-virtualized server, and booted to RAM using a bootloader (e.g. grub) in a UEFI ...
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How can an image file be created for a directory?
How can an image file be created for a directory? For example:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/90794/674 shows that genisoimage can create an iso image file for a directory. I only know that an ...
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How to customize a linux iso's installer?
I am trying to customize my own linux distribution based on Debian using pinguy.
When i generate a .iso for the distribution, i get a default installer which i want to customize by adding certain ...
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Will any ldlinux.c32 work for creating a live ISO?
I'm trying to make a Live ISO for USB. I'm following a guide to help me do this, and one of the steps says to:
cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/ldlinux.c32 image/isolinux/, but I don't have /usr/lib/...
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Why can't I create a bootable Win7 flash by simply dd'ing the .iso to /dev/sd*?
It so happens that I need to install Win7 on a PC with a brand new blank HDD (the old one failed). I have the needed .iso file (on my Android tablet) and the only place I can stuff a USB flash into ...
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How can I make a bootable ISO from a bootable USB drive?
I used a set of instructions to create a bootable USB drive for ChromeOS. I want to install ChromeOS in VirtualBox. This is apparently impossible to do from a USB drive. I tried mounting the 9GB .img ...
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On Linux, make bootable USB from Windows installation ISO
I tried creating a bootable USB from a Windows 10 ISO:
dd if=file.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
However, when booting, all I saw was:
BOOTMGR is missing.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
I ...
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Creating an ISO that a macbook can boot from
Trying to repack an ISO with a preseed file to automate installation.
I have done this with a dozen laptops and works great. Until I ran into a macbook, where it does not work.
Originally repacking ...
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Why isn't filesystem bigger than 4G bootable
I'm creating a custom ISO based on the official Ubuntu 16.04.
What I'm doing is simple:
1) mount the official Ubuntu iso to /mnt;
2) cp /mnt/install/filesystem.squashfs /home;
3) cd /home && ...
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Who is in charge of offering initrd
After reading this link, I've known why we need the initrd. As my understanding, after the kernel is loaded into RAM, the initrd does two things:
loading necessary drivers;
mount the real root ...
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GRUB2 Booting ISO from NTFS partition [duplicate]
I'm trying to boot an ISO containing a Linux live system from an existing NTFS partition on a PC. The PC has UEFI, and the hard disk is partitioned with GPT, so GRUB4DOS is not an option. Can this be ...
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Kali/Debian live-build: ISO that auto-mounts device [duplicate]
Using Kali's live-build, I would like to create a bootable USB drive and auto-mount /home. I don't want to use persistence, as I want to make sure all changes outside /home are ephemeral.
I think the ...
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How migrate from Openstack KVM VM to KVM
I have one VM in Openstack that VM in qcow format . I want to migrate it to another datacenter KVM VM machine but it supports ISO file.
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How to Split Audio Tracks from ISO file
I have an ISO file that was created out of an audio CD. I received this ISO from another computer and I don't have a CD burner.
I'd like to split the audio tracks in the ISO with a program such as ...
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How to use free space on USB flash drive after 'dd' of debian installer?
I have an 32GiB USB flash drive.
I wrote Debian Live image to USB flash drive by "dd".
Now on USB flash drive 27 GiB free space.
I want to use this free space.
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How to add programs and files within the linux ISO: [duplicate]
So I'm installing a version of Linux Mint. I would like to edit the programs and files that are included in the ISO, because there is not always internet access. For example, a very specific ...
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Reading full Names in an Archive or ISO image?
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my Laptop wanting to learn Linux. I have some Video Courses in ISO Images; whenever I want to extract files from them, I don't get full names for some reason. I ...
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How to create a FreeBSD ISO with mkisofs that will boot in VirtualBox under UEFI?
I am trying to write a script that will unpack and repack a FreeBSD ISO such that I can then do an installation with it. The goal is an unattended installation.
I've got the following script written ...
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Mounting Case Sensitive ISO
I have an ISO whose file names and directories are case sensitive. When I mount this in CentOS 7.6 using the method I have always used:
sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop /location/file.iso /mnt/iso
The ...
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No internet connection in chroot environment (customizing iso)
I want to customize a Ubuntu Desktop Iso and I have come that far, that I am in the chroot environment.
The problem is that I do not have Internet access in there to install anything.
I just can ...
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What is the difference between a Redhat “Binary DVD” and an “Update Binary DVD”?
Some versions of RHEL, but not all (for example, 7.4), have ISO download options of both a "Binary DVD" (e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Binary DVD, 3.78GB) and an "Update Binary DVD" (e.g. Red Hat ...
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genisoimage doubles the size of folder
I have a folder with ~22k subfolders on it, and each subfolder can have more subfolders, up to a depth of ~7.
So I wanted to make it a single file, but not a rar or similar file, because ...
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How to tell if a system is running as a live USB from BASH
I'm working on making an ISO image I can burn to a USB device as a live system. In order to install to the internal drive of the system that booted the live USB, I have an icon on the desktop to ...
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Bootable ISO vs. Partitioning
I would like to create a bootable Linux ISO on a USB drive under Debian 9. I found that the ISO is only bootable if it has been written to the disk /dev/XdY.
If the ISO is written to a specific ...
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How to mount ftp mounted .iso file to ubuntu
In my windows, I have created a folder. I have mounted that folder using curlftps. It was successful. there's a .iso file (centos.iso) in that folder. Then I tried to mount that iso image to my linux ...
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Date on ls command [closed]
Today I saw that the ls -l command does not display the date a file was created. In summary, I downloaded an iso today and in the ls -l I have Mar 14 2015 !
Why is that? The file was created today on ...
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CD was not burned correctly but content is OK
I am making a backup of some data. I made an ISO image of the data using genisoimage version 1.1.11 using the command:
$ genisoimage -l -J -r -o ../image.iso .
and then burned it to a CD with
$ ...
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General question about `dd`, iso images and linux devices
I have an iso image (it's a windows installation disk), but I do not want to burn dvd. I want to create a bootable usb flash drive instead. And I want to use linux tools to accomplish this task.
I ...
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Create custom ISO for Alpine Linux
I have created a custom ISO with the steps mentioned in the Alpine wiki page.
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/How_to_make_a_custom_ISO_image_with_mkimage
I have included couple of apks that are ...
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Is it possible to boot a grub-mkstandalone created img file from cfg?
So I have a fully functional .img file created using grub-mkstandalone. I put this on a CD and it boots fine, the ISO loads great in a VM, etc...
Now, what I want to do is link an existing grub.cfg ...
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CentOS 7 .discinfo missing line 4
The .discinfo file for CentOS 7.x distribution is missing the 4th line which indicated CD/DVD disc #. Is this data located somewhere else now?? For example, CentOS 7.4 everything .iso has .discinfo:
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How to configure our custom IP address to a linux iso image after extracting the same?
Normally after booting the system with Linux ISO image we can able to access the system from an external network using their IP address.
And by default it will have loopback address(127.0.0.1) and ...
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Should isohybrid work on all iso media, fx Windows 7?
I have a an original Windows 7 Professional x86 iso file, straight from Microsoft. I want to make a bootable USB from this ISO. Some sources suggest that I simply dd the iso to the USB, but I don't ...
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Convert 64-bit ISO to 32-bit
I have a Linux bootable ISO of Blancco Drive Eraser which only supports 64-bit CPUs.
How can I use this ISO with a 32-bit CPU?
I want to erase the onboard eMMC on tablets. So far I've failed to find ...
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What is going on with this .iso file?
I am attempting to install the latest edition of Linux Mint on my 2013 MacBook Pro, but seem to have fallen at the first hurdle.
On going to https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=246 and selecting the ...
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Command Line alternative to IsoBuster
I am trying to find a way to automate the process of merging multi-track .bin + .cue files into a single .bin and .cue. I have a collection of PSX roms, and they all come in bin and cue format. And ...
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Debian Stretch mount hybrid iso fails
I try to mount the current Debian live ISO (debian-live-9.3.0-amd64-xfce.iso from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/) in a Debian 9.3.0 system.
The command should be ...
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Persistent boot order not happening after rescue and reboot from CD-ROM mounted ISO in RHEL 7.4
I mount the RHEL 7.4 ISO available in the CD-ROM and go into the rescue mode (Troubleshooting) after selecting CD-ROM option in the "One-time Boot menu". And, after reboot it is supposed to boot back ...
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Determine if two iso images are equal
I've recently made multiple images of several SD cards on multiple machines using dd. I haven't done a stellar job with my naming, and have some duplicates. How can I quickly determine if two images ...
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How to create a local repo using a live dvd iso of Centos?
So let's say am in home dir.
And I do have CENTOS7.iso sitting on my home dir.
Now how do I create a local repo of Centos.
What I did so far is create a dir.
# mkdir localrepo
# yum install ...
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Is it possible to install CentOS (7) on a USB drive?
We all know we can create bootable USB with Rufus and live ISO like LiveGNOME ISO file, but in my experience it can't save settings and data which means it'll reset to default value every time you ...
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Can not see partitions in gparted after imaging iso
I have imaged 64Gb usb stick with kali linux iso as explained in official documentation.
Then I have created persistence partition with parted in accordance with official docs as well.
But even ...
