hi there,
ive download auditor live cd. but im wanting to access a few text files on my hdd. they are too big to print out, it would be a waste of paper and i think it would just be easier to see it on the computer...... i want to be able to boot up the auditor live cd and have the files on the same cd. i tried first to extract the image to my hdd, put the txt files in and then burned it to a cd. rebooted pc and it would not burn the cd. i think i have it in a wrong directory or something. where am i meant to put it so i can access it from the cd?

or another way would be from accessing it from my hdd, but how?? auditor is knoppic based but i cannot seem to access the hdd.

Use the mount command! Take a look at "man mount".
ex.: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/afolder
where -t is the partition type, hda1, the first partition of your IDE1 master HD, and /mnt/afolder an empty folder in the right place to mount things.

To modify an ISO, mount it using the loopback device (check your man pages for details, should be something like "mount -o loop (device) (mountpoint)" from memory

You can't directly edit the ISO, IIRC, so copy the files across to a new directory with "cp -R". You'll then have the whole filesystem of the ISO as part of your normal filesystem. Copy the files you want into the directory, create a new ISO image with mkisofs or similar, and then burn the ISO to the disk using cdrecord or whatever.

So long as there's enough space on the CD to accomodate the extra files, this should work. Haven't tried it myself tho, so no promises!

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oneandoneis2:

I suspect the new CD may not boot. If you make a copy of a hard disk you need to at least run LILO again to configure the boot loader. CDs use isolinux instead of LILO but I think the principle is the same.

Actually, I think you'll find the principle is different - You have to re-install the boot loader when copying a hard drive because it installs it to the MBR, which isn't part of the file system, and so not transferrable via "cp"

But because CD-ROMs don't have a MBR, they have to use something that IS part of the file system, which therefore IS cp-able.

I don't have a Knoppix CD handy, but my Knoppix-based DSL CD is indeed isolinux based, and that is in turn eltorito based. And when I made a Grub CD via the eltorito option, it only involved copying a file onto the CD.

So a straightforward file-copy should work, AFAIK.

OK - I am also familiar with syslinux (for FAT filesystems) but not isolinux. The command to create a bootable CD is

mkisofs -o output.iso \
-b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
root-of-iso-tree

so I guess you are saying that only the names of the isolinux files are important, and not their absolute position inside the image.

In fact the first 1024 bytes (at least) on a Knoppix CD are all zero (I just checked).

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That command is fine for a linux booting ISO image, but what about VFAT image? What are the boot files for those types of ISO's?