In the midst of gkrellm ( nonsensical name), and sysguard (misleading name), Isomaster is indeed a breath of fresh air. There need to be more developers thinking straight when it comes to naming their contribution.
It seems this is the only tool that allows editing ISO images, and it was an uphill task to get it. The first assumption, ofcourse, was that I could mount the iso as loop and edit it like any file system. But, the ISO 9660 file system is read only, and therefore the files need to be extracted, and a new ISO created. I was not sure whether doing this would retain the bootablility of the resulting ISO, hence I had to go looking for an ISO editor.
The need for the editor was felt because of the need to modify the OPensuse 10.3 DVD image to include some other rpms that are not available in it - isomaster is one.
The normal route to getting the ISOmaster was to include Packman repository in Yast and searching for ISOmaster. While ISOmaster did show up in the results, the rpm was missing from the repository, and so the installation by that route failed.
The next move was to go to the ISOmaster home page, and download the "One click installer" YUM file. This is a small file that when double clicked will launch YAST with the desired repository selected. This step, obviously, failed since the rpm was not in the repository. The other download option was the source code, and I was loathe to do the make, configure, link etc jig.
More googleing showed up the rpm proper at the Suse site. This was the easiest way to get application - download rpm, add path to YAST, and double click on rpm.
ISOMaster is spartan, but it get's the job done well.
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