Iso images

copying

Iso images can be written to block devices via dd see https://dev.arising.com.au:445/mediawiki/index.php/Kali_linux

dd if=some.iso of=/dev/usb-dev bs=1M

• copy from cdrom

dd if=/dev/sr0 of=~/rip.iso bs=1M

making

• https://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-ISO-File-in-Linux

mkisofs -o example.iso /source/directory/

mounting

• make a mount point

mkdir /mnt/iso

• mount image e.g.

mount -o loop an.iso /mnt/iso

• list contents

ls /mnt/iso/

• copy

cp /mnt/iso/ ...

using iso images as repositories

• https://www.pcsuggest.com/how-to-use-an-iso-file-as-offline-repository-in-debian/

extracting

• list

 isoinfo -i an.iso -l

• extract

isoinfo -i an.iso -x MD5SUM.TXT > MD5SUM.TXT

References

• http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/isomaster.1.html
• https://linux.die.net/man/1/genisoimage
• devdumnp isoinfo https://linux.die.net/man/8/isoinfo
• https://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-ISO-File-in-Linux