CentOS - Feb 2011 - Creating floppy image without root permissions?

Hello All:

   I've recently had to provision some RHEL and CentOS VMWare
instances. There was no network connectivity so I had to use a
kickstart floppy and DVD iso rather than installing from our
repository.  To create the floppy I used the following:


As root:
	dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.flp bs=1k count=360
	mkfs.vfat floppy.flp
	mount -o loop floppy.flp /mnt/floppy
	cp base_kickstart.ks /mnt/floppy/ks.cfg
	umount /mnt/floppy


It works, but now I need to automate the process and have to do with
without root access.  Is there a way to create a floppy iso with a
single file without root access?   I looked at fuseiso, but it appears
that it still requires some root permissions.

Kwan Lowe wrote:
> As root:
> 	dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.flp bs=1k count=360
> 	mkfs.vfat floppy.flp
> 	mount -o loop floppy.flp /mnt/floppy
> 	cp base_kickstart.ks /mnt/floppy/ks.cfg
> 	umount /mnt/floppy
> 
> 
> It works, but now I need to automate the process and have to do with
> without root access.  Is there a way to create a floppy iso with a
> single file without root access?   I looked at fuseiso, but it appears
> that it still requires some root permissions.
Have a look at mtools (part of CentOS) - you can do something similar as 
above as a non-root user:

  mformat -C -i floppy.flp -f 360 ::
  mcopy -i floppy.flp base_kickstart.ks ::ks.cfg

James Pearson