I am running Moonshine with the latest kernel and want to make a slax distro with my prefered modules. Allegedly all that needs to be done is adding the .mo files to the /modules/ directory. What is the easiest way to accomplish this?

I am assuming that I can burn the iso to a cd, copy the cd onto a directory on my hard drive, add the file, and then burn that as a new .iso. Thats how I would do it in Winslows anyway. I read somewhere there was an editiso command but no manual and no command in my distro.

If one was to do what I suggested, what program in linux would I use to make the new iso image?

Thanks in advance as always.

Please disregard this post.

Is "hello" the /directory/file of what I want to add?

The mounted iso seems to be a read only file system even tho my root has rwx permissions...

drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2006-08-21 14:00 disk

Yes, you can loopback mount an ISO, but you cannot edit it. You'll need to pull the files out of the ISO, edit them, and then stick them back into a new ISO.

I've been waiting for a better solution to this problem, probably through FUSE, but haven't seen it yet.

Ok, i have the file mounted so i can just make a new directory and put the files in there. I am not editing anything, only adding a file, so all that is left to do is make the new iso.

I take it I need a program for this? I could cheat and use my winslows box but i would really like this to be accomplished in linux.

So I guess my (hopefully) last question in this thread is how do I create said new iso in linux?

thanks again.

use mkisofs

I realize that this doesn't really answer your question, but I would like to point out that in your case, burning a multisession CD might also be an option: Just burn the original ISO with 'cdrecord -multi ...' and create a supplementary ISO containing your modules by following the instructions at http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO...TO.html#ss4.18

That way, you can keep the 'clean' ISO and your own contributions separate, which ought to make things easier to manage as new versions of Slax and/or the modules are released.

K3B will burn an image, which is an iso. Why make it harder than it has to be?

Thanks for all the help, I didn't think k3b could could write to an existing directory on a multisession but apparently it can. I got it to copy and added my files but now the disk isn't bootable so I think I am just going to open a thread in the slackware forum for help on the specific problem.

btw isomaster is a good FE tool for linux noobs (like me, no malice intended).
http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster/