On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:23:06AM -0600, Jim Crumley wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:21:34AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > I could do 'mkisofs -JR -o foo.iso ~/music' and then write a really long
> > list to exclude those dirs that I don't want, using the --exclude-list
> > option; but in some cases it's easier to say what you want, rather than what
> > you *don't* want.
> > 
> > anyone have any experience with this? how did you get around the problem?
> 
> The way I get around this problem is create a temporary
> directory, and then symbolically link the directories that I want
> into it.  So you do something like:
> # mkdir target ; ln -s ~/music/oggs ~/music/mp3s target
> # mkisofs -JR -o /var/tmp/foo.iso target

Oops, of course you then need to follow links for this to work.
# mkisofs -JRf -o /var/tmp/foo.iso target

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