[syslinux] xorriso or genisoimage syntax assistance

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Feb 1 14:54:43 PST 2014


On 02/01/2014 02:48 PM, Dean Graff wrote:
> Sorry, i should have been more clear. I am just trying to understand how
> to do this same thing with xorriso or genisoimage, Debian for instance,
> has both of these, but does not have `mkisofs'. I was hoping to write
> the guide so that it could be used from debian, and hopefully take
> advantage of the `xorriso' option which allows the rest of a USB to used
> for a persistence partition, in the case that it is turned into a
> binary-hybrid.iso.
> 

genisoimage should be command-line compatible with mkisofs (on a lot of
Linux platforms, the mkisofs command *is* genisoimage).  xorriso uses a
different command line, as it is a lot more capable.

	-hpa




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