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Date:	Sat, 28 Aug 2004 13:29:44 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Making the ISO file

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In <200408281005.2637487.6@scoug.com>, on 08/28/04
at 10:05 AM, "Don{ald} O. Woodall" said:

> Long time, no bother.

What? Me bothered? :-)

> Um, well, I am not comprehending how the path list option works or
>what it does. The documentation is not clear to me on that point.

OK. From the docs

-path-list file
A file containing a list of pathspec directories and
filenames to be added to the ISO9660 filesystem. This
list of pathspecs are processed after any that appear
on the command line. If the argument is -, then the
list is read from the standard input. There must be at
least one pathspec given on the command line as well.

This says that the file contains a list of directories and filenames in
pathspec format. The items are supplied one per line, which is pretty
typical for this kind of input.

A pathspec is defined as:

pathspec is the path of the directory tree to be copied into
the iso9660 filesystem. Multiple paths can be specified,
and mkisofs will merge the files found in all of the speci-
fied path components to form the cdrom image.

If the option -graft-points has been specified, it is possi-
ble to graft the paths at points other than the root direc-
tory, and it is possible to graft files or directories onto
the cdrom image with names different than what they have in
the source filesystem. This is easiest to illustrate with a
couple of examples. Let's start by assuming that a local
file ../old.lis exists, and you wish to include it in the
cdrom image.

So, if you are not using graft-points, valid pathspecs are:

/dirname
/dirname/filename

and so on.

>mkisofs -v -o %H:\ISOIMAGES\ecs11cd1.iso% -r -J -m
>-b M:\BOOTIMGS\cdloader.bin -c M:\BOOTIMGS\boot_cat.bin -no-emul-boot
>-boot-load-size 4
> > /H:\APPS\CDRECORD\makecs11cd1dow.log 2>&1

>> mkisofs -v -o %ISOFILE% -r -J -graft-points -path-list=pathlist.in
>>-exclude-list=pathlist.out

Use forward slashes. Backslashes might work, but it's a crapshoot. Also,
you have some basic syntax errors. Recall that % surrounds environment
variables in scripts. :-)

Reread the docs for the -c option to understand why the path you supplied
was wrong.

You need to supply at least on source pathspec. I supply mine in the
path-list file. You need to supply yours on the command line.

Try:

mkisofs -v -o H:/ISOIMAGES/ecs11cd1.iso -r -J -m
-b M:/BOOTIMGS/cdloader.bin -c boot_cat.bin
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 m:/

after unwrapping, of course. This should either work, or be close.

HTH,

Steven

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