From 62d4f2550d6b412a4b3ad4b34d4b3d3a67c4eb6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 20:51:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] todo: Add notes on inspecting ISO images. --- TODO | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index ca649ba..a42cbcc 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -375,10 +375,55 @@ $EDITOR without any corresponding ability to set them. live CD inspection ------------------ -guestfish -i livecd.iso + virt-inspector livecd.iso Could this be done through the core API and existing calls? +There is a soft requirement for this in virt-manager, where it would +be nice to be able to prepopulate the operating system hints based on +what sort of ISO the user is trying to install from. + +Several sorts of CDs: + + - live CD + - install-only CD + - network install CD + - supplemental CDs with additional packages but not bootable + on its own + +Some CDs are formatted as ISO9660 and larger ones as UDF (DVD format), +but they all are unpartitioned. + +Bootable Linux CDs have an /isolinux directory. + +Bootable EFI CDs have an /EFI/BOOT directory. + +Fedora live CDs have /images/install.img which is a squashfs +containing an ext4 root. We could consider mounting this and +inspecting it separately, but it would be simple to get everything we +need from other files in the CD directory. + +More recent Fedora install DVD has /.discinfo and /.treeinfo with some +easy to parse information in it. + +Debian and Ubuntu CDs have a /.disk/info file which is the product +string. There are other interesting files in /.disk. They also have +a characteristic directory structure (eg. /dists, /pool/main) which +looks like a Debian archive. + +Windows 2003 install CDs have some characteristic stamp files in the +root directory, like: /win51 /win51ia /win51ia.sp2. The main +installation files (CAB files) are in /i386 directory. The following +files contain a lot of interesting information: + + /i386/hivesft.inf + /i386/layout.inf + /i386/sis.inf + /i386/txtsetup.sif + +Windows 7 install CDs are quite different and pretty impenetrable. +There are no obvious files to parse. + More ntfs tools --------------- -- 1.8.3.1