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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

by Clif Flynt, Sarath Lakshman, Shantanu Tushar
May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating ISO files and hybrid ISO

An ISO image is an archive format that stores the exact image of an optical disk such as CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and so on. ISO files are commonly used to store content to be burned to optical media.

This section will describe how to extract data from an optical disk into an ISO file that can be mounted as a loopback device, and then explain ways to generate your own ISO file systems that can be burned to an optical media.

We need to distinguish between bootable and non-bootable optical disks. Bootable disks are capable of booting from themselves and also running an operating system or another product. Bootable DVDs include installation kits and Live systems such as Knoppix and Puppy.

Non-bootable ISOs cannot do ...

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