On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 05:19:26PM +0000, Miller, Seth wrote: > It didn't take long to find out that there is a way to force the > update by modifying the autoexec.bat on the iso. However, when I mount > the iso in Linux, I don't see any of the files. My assumption is that > the iso is using a dos boot loader. What I don't understand is why I > can't read those files. > > Anyway, the objective is to extract the autoexec.bat, modify it and > put it back into the file or just create a new iso with the files. Any > help or suggestions would be appreciated. What you have there might be an "El-Torito" image, where a 1.44MB or 2.88MB floppy image is loaded into RAM and used to simulate a floppy disk. That image and its contents do not appear when you mount an iso as a filesystem. You'll need to dig in the file using a hex-editor, looking for the FAT or the boot sector to identify where the image starts. Cheers, florin -- Sent from my last battery. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130531/7f4f12b2/attachment.pgp>