[Tutor] disk images?

[McLaughlin, Toby]

[Note: off-topic]

Hi Lloyd,

I'm not sure about Python, but this is trivial to do with Linux.  In a
Unix/Linux environment, you can mount files as easily as devices (in
fact, devices _are_ files in Unix).  The command to mount a floppy image
would look like:

	mount imagefile /mnt/floppy -o loop

You can then change into the /mnt/floppy directory and do whatever you
want with the contents.  Then you unmount the image ("umount
/mnt/floppy") and write it out to your physical media.

If you don't have a Linux machine handy, consider using a CD based
distribution like Knoppix to do the work.

Good luck,
Toby McLaughlin.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Lloyd Hugh Allen
> Sent: Sunday, 7 November 2004 11:53 PM
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> Subject: [Tutor] disk images?
> 
> 
> I'm googling but not finding what I want. First, background.
> 
> * There is a tool called something like "Bart's Bootable CD Creator"
> (see http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ ), which allows a single CD to hold
> multiple boot floppies.
> 
> * My workplace uses multiple boot floppies to deploy hard drive
> images. Which boot disk should be used depends on where the computer
> is physically located and what kind of computer it is. Most of the
> boot disks differ by about four characters in a single file.
> 
> My goal is to generate all of the boot floppy images, in order to burn
> them to a single CD. Then techs would only have to carry a single CD,
> which boots quickly and reliably, instead of continually modifying a
> floppy, which boots slowly and then fails.
> 
> Is there a utility for viewing and editing (mounting, essentially)
> dos-formatted disk images from within Python? Would this be
> non-trivial to create?
> 
> Thanks!
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