Script Extracting Desktop Module Offline/Online from ISO File

[Ed_P]

If wishing to employ the script with a minimum of hassle, at the Code Block holding the Script:
SELECT ALL > Ctl+C > Paste into a Terminal

Really!! Wow

1. Root Terminal if getting Online from Mirror.
2. Any Terminal if getting Offline from Directory in Filesystem.

Offline??


N.B.

Never mind I've figured out what you're saying. Offline mode for ISOs you have already downloaded.

[Bogomips]

Offline??

Whole idea of reusable code.

[francois]

What about mounting the file over the internet?

Proof of concept

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iso=http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/os/Linux/distr/porteus/x86_64/Porteus-v3.2.2/modules/003-lxde.xzm
mkdir /mnt/{httpfs2,xzm}
httpfs2 $iso /mnt/httpfs2
mount /mnt/httpfs2/003-lxde.xzm /mnt/xzm
ls /mnt/xzm

Great trick!

How about mounting a complete iso to get the desktop environement of your choice (kde for example)? (to be tested)
# iso=http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/os/Linux/distr/p ... x86_64.iso
# mkdir /mnt/{httpfs2,xzm}
httpfs2 $iso /mnt/httpfs2
# mount /mnt/httpfs2/Porteus-KDE-v3.2.2-x86_64.iso
ls /mnt/xzm/porteus/base/004.kde.xzm

[Bogomips]

How about mounting a complete iso to get the desktop environement of your choice (kde for example)? (to be tested)
# iso=http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/os/Linux/distr/p ... x86_64.iso
# mkdir /mnt/{httpfs2,xzm}
httpfs2 $iso /mnt/httpfs2
# mount /mnt/httpfs2/Porteus-KDE-v3.2.2-x86_64.iso

Isn't that what mloop already does?

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# mloop $iso    

Put forward by your good self:

What about mloop iso?

[brokenman]

I think it would be much easier to just put the desktop modules on the server. The script would be best used to extract modules from a local ISO. In this case though, mloop could mount the script and user could copy the module.

Great scripting nonetheless Bogomips.

[Bogomips]

Script http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 1ab#p53221 Enhanced to cope with variable length mirror timings. Also when invoked as function, provides an architecture override. Prior to invocation of function x3get, setting shell variable arc=i586/x86_64 will ensure architecture override.