[CALUG] reading live CD files ??..

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

One way is not to use Live CDs.

Given that USB drives are bigger and faster, I claim tha Live CDs are 
obsolete.

However, to answer your question (or at least get you started) most Live 
CDs seem to use the squashfs  filesystem. It's implemented as a module. 
Next time you run one, type "lsmod | sort | less" and see if you can 
figure out which one it is.

Now if it's available on some other kernel, you can load it and figure 
out how to mount it.

Google for something like "live cd squashfs" and read what comes back.

Good Luck.

JIM

Walt Smith wrote:
> As an aside, anyone,
> 
> I see the live CD has a bit of dir structure
> and the real files seem to be stuffed into some big .img file.
> Just curious-have no immediate need...but
> is there some utility or someway in browser ( say, Nautilus)
> to easily breakout files in the .img file ???
> 
> ( maybe in the same way a .zip file can be "unrolled" ?)
> 
> 
> also, (I'm full of Q's today )
> would a dd of the CD => hard disk file, if it had worked, 
> have resulted in a file that md5sum or gpg could have dealt with ?
> (perhaps if named with suffix .iso)
> 
> 
> thx,
> 
> Walt......