making ISO images

[Sean]

Im kind of thinking...

Use tar with the -LM option, a write to a loopback iso. Have a dummy tape
driver catch the eject/end o tape signal, which would signal it to umount
the iso, and create a new one.

You could then have a script that deals with iso files, you could compress
and send them over the network, or just send them over the network,

You could actually add this to part of the dummy tape driver script too.

Now what would be cool is something like Apple Disk Image utility that
actually creates compressed self-mounting images, compression would be
nice.



On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Nick Lewis wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Edward Glowacki wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >Hmmm... maybe I should write up all this stuff in detail and see
> >if anyone is interested in helping build it.
> <snip>
>
> You might want to check out jigdo. I just saw an announcement in the
> Debian Weekly News.
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2001/debian-cd-200109/msg00000.html
>
> >From the man page:
>
> "For example, if you wish to distribute an ISO9660 image which contains a
> snapshot of an FTP server, you can instruct jigdo-file to prepare the
> download data in such a way that when people use jigdo to download the
> image, jigdo actually fetches the individual files from the FTP server and
> assembles them into an exact copy of your image - during the download! (If
> the image is not a filesystem dump, you can use split(1) to create the
> small parts that the image will be reassembled from.)
>
> You are completely free to choose where the individual parts of the image
> are stored: They may be in entirely different directories on different
> servers (e.g. because of storage/bandwidth constraints), but this is
> invisible to the people downloading your image, who only tell jigdo to
> download one `.jigdo' file."
>
> It looks like it might do some of what you want, if it compiles/works on
> BSD?
>
> HTH. Nick.
>
>
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