Make ISO Image?
How do you make an ISO image of a directory on Linux. For instance, if I have the directory /home/username/burnthis , and I want to burn everything inside of the burnthis directory, but not the burnthis directory itself, what command would I type in? Does this work for DVD ISO images as well as CD ISO images?
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You're looking for the mkisofs command. In your situation, what I would normally do is this:
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cd /home/username As for whether it extends to DVDs... I honestly don't know, but I don't see why not. That's a technical-standard-based question, and I'm not sure where that documentation lives. EDIT: ilikejam is right... use the lowecase 'r' in the command... changed mine to reflect that. |
Hi.
Run mkisofs on the directory. Here's what I use: mkisofs -J -r -o <output.iso> <directory to be burned> DVDs and data CDs are effectively the same (including video DVDs) ISO filesystem. There's a 2GB limit on the size of ISO images, though. Dave Edit: Having looked into iso-levels more, I've changed my mind about using level 3, so I'm using level 1(normal ISO9660) now. |
Why are SUSE and Red Hat (Fedora) able to distribute ISO's larger than 2 GB then? Is there some kind of special way to do this?
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Oops. I meant that to read 'a 2GB limit on the size of files in an ISO image'.
Dave |
Ah, that should be fine. The biggest file will probably be 200 MB so it shouldn't be a problem. Thank you for all of the replies.
Cya! |
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