[CentOS] Creating floppy image without root permissions?
James Pearson
james-p at moving-picture.com
Tue Feb 15 22:37:32 UTC 2011
Kwan Lowe wrote:
> As root:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.flp bs=1k count=360
> mkfs.vfat floppy.flp
> mount -o loop floppy.flp /mnt/floppy
> cp base_kickstart.ks /mnt/floppy/ks.cfg
> umount /mnt/floppy
>
>
> It works, but now I need to automate the process and have to do with
> without root access. Is there a way to create a floppy iso with a
> single file without root access? I looked at fuseiso, but it appears
> that it still requires some root permissions.
Have a look at mtools (part of CentOS) - you can do something similar as
above as a non-root user:
mformat -C -i floppy.flp -f 360 ::
mcopy -i floppy.flp base_kickstart.ks ::ks.cfg
James Pearson
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