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| author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2011-01-15 16:40:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2011-01-15 16:40:49 +0000 |
| commit | deadcc73260a82c210417382412f80d14c5292db (patch) | |
| tree | c62b7e03d7b16991e9db3de2b95a20c0d90fc94a /TODO | |
| parent | 07f1be28e85c37580d882c0a889528c1b9c6b4a0 (diff) | |
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todo: Live CD inspection works, but not for Windows 7.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 48 deletions
@@ -372,54 +372,8 @@ $EDITOR without any corresponding ability to set them. echo $EDITOR # or %{EDITOR} edit /etc/resolv.conf -live CD inspection ------------------- - - 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 +live CD inspection for Windows 7 +-------------------------------- Windows 7 install CDs are quite different and pretty impenetrable. There are no obvious files to parse. |