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 -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Free Dmitry Sklyarov - http://faircopyright.org/