mkisofs - MAKEISO - Creating ISO file

[Kramy]

Most of you probably know I've been using nLite until now. Yesterday I started messing with mkisofs.exe to build the ISO, but it kept spitting out error messages.

Here's a couple changes...

IF "%AHTEST%"=="HFDRV" SET HFDRVSOLO=1

IF "%AHTEST%"=="hfdrv" SET HFDRVSOLO=1

IF "%AHTEST%"=="MAKEISO" CALL :MKISOFS & pause & exit

IF "%AHTEST%"=="makeiso" CALL :MKISOFS & pause & exit

IF "!HFDRVSOLO!"=="1" CALL :HFDRV & CALL :MKISOFS & pause & exit

IF "!DIAGNOSTIC!"=="1" SET CompressionMemory=21 & CALL :FOLDERPREP & CALL :CABEXPAND2 & CALL :HFCLEANUP & CALL :CABCOMPACT & CALL :MKISOFS & RD/Q/S WORK & pause & exit

IF NOT "%AHTEST%"=="I HAVE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS" IF NOT "%AHTEST%"=="I have read the instructions" IF NOT "%AHTEST%"=="i have read the instructions" ECHO Read them NOW & Pause & Exit

:MKISOFS doesn't exist anymore. Can probably delete that bolded stuff.

REM ===================MAKEISO============================================================

:MAKEISO

IF EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.IMG IF NOT EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN REN HFTOOLS\BOOT.IMG BOOT.BIN

IF NOT EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN IF EXIST HFTOOLS\BBIE.EXE CALL :GETBOOTBIN

IF NOT EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN GOTO EOF

SET SOURCE=SOURCESS

IF NOT DEFINED ISONAME SET ISONAME=WINLite.ISO

IF NOT DEFINED ISOTITLE SET ISOTITLE=HFSLIPCD

IF NOT DEFINED CDIMGSW SET CDIMGSW=-h -j1 -m

IF NOT DEFINED MKISSW SET MKISSW=-relaxed-filenames -d -D -N -J -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4

TITLE %T1% - Creating ISO Image

ECHO.

ECHO Creating ISO...

IF "%CDIMG%"=="1" HFTOOLS\CDIMAGE.EXE -l"%ISOTITLE%" %CDIMGSW% -bHFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN %SOURCE% "%ISONAME%"

IF "%MKISS%"=="1" (

COPY HFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN SOURCESS

HFTOOLS\mkisofs.exe %MKISSW% -b BOOT.BIN -o "%ISONAME%" -V "%ISOTITLE%" %SOURCE%

DEL/Q/F SOURCESS\BOOT.BIN

)

ECHO.

ECHO Your ISO is here: %PREP%%ISONAME%

ECHO.

GOTO EOF

REM ======================================================================================

The bold indicates the case sensitivity problem on my system(before some BOOT.BIN references were uppercase, and other boot.bin references were lowercase). Last I checked my computer didn't generate short fs names either though, so it may just be me.

Anyway, to make this topic not totally useless...what you need to make your ISO quickly and easily with HFSLIP:

1) Newish HFSLIP version with ISOconf.txt

2) modifyPE.exe in HFTOOLS

3) bbie.exe in HFTOOLS

4) mkisofs.exe in HFTOOLS(I'm using that one and so far my computer is still alive - though it being a new version is probably the cause of the case sensitivity issues)

5) The above :MAKEISO changes(you can open HFSLIP and edit it yourself fine - use Notepad's find feature to locate parts quickly).

6) Your Win2k CD in your CD-Rom, ready to have the boot files extracted near the end of an HFSLIP run.

After that, no more need for the CD - just need mkisofs.exe to remain in there, and probably modifype.exe for other things. You can delete bbie.exe so long as you keep BOOT.BIN around.

Just a thought, but maybe the site could be updated with a few of those simple steps?

Edited April 8, 2006 by Kramy

[tommyp]

Kramy, the caller in the beginning that you have in bold is from a very old version of hfslip. I would recommend to grab the latest test version (it works as far as I am concerned). Here's a tip for you, perhaps one day I'll introduce additional features. But, for instance, lets say you finished making your sourcess using hfslip. Then one day you want to replace a file or two. Instead of re-running hfslip entirely, run hfslip and instead of typing in I have read.... type in makeiso instead. The only thing that will happen is that an ISO will be created using the stuff in the sourcess folder. It's a little easter egg. Speaking of which, it's almost easter.

[Kramy]

Kramy, the caller in the beginning that you have in bold is from a very old version of hfslip. I would recommend to grab the latest test version (it works as far as I am concerned). Here's a tip for you, perhaps one day I'll introduce additional features. But, for instance, lets say you finished making your sourcess using hfslip. Then one day you want to replace a file or two. Instead of re-running hfslip entirely, run hfslip and instead of typing in I have read.... type in makeiso instead. The only thing that will happen is that an ISO will be created using the stuff in the sourcess folder. It's a little easter egg. Speaking of which, it's almost easter.

That's from the April 1st version(60401). I tried adding in a call to :MAKEISO at the same location, but it failed(likely from missing variables). That's why I said remove, and not change.

I thought you'd be happy to know there's a new mkisofs.exe version out. One that apparently has increased performance, no less.

[tommyp]

It wasn't supposed to be an April Fool's release, but the April 1st hfslip was buggy, no fooling. IIRC, when using the BBIE program, it outputs a lower case filename. The commandline for the mkisofs program is case sensitive. This is HFSLIP's mkisofs commandline is written the way it is. The current version works.

[Kramy]

Ahh, missed what bbie outputted. Well, either way, the file has to be renamed or the script changed. Good to hear it's fixed in the next release.

[Tomcat76]

Thanks, Kramy. Using HFSLIP version 60409a, mkisofs.exe should accept any variation in case.

[Super-Magician]

Edited April 13, 2006 by Super-Magician