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FishyMike
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 Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: DVD to CD |
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| Need to convert/copy my Linux DVD's into CD format. Will Nero or simular program do this.
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nlinecomputers
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject: Re: DVD to CD [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Convert how?
You can't cram a DVD's worth of info onto a CD. You'd have to move all the files by hand and burn CDs and they wouldn't work because the indexes on them expect a single directory on one DVD. You'll have to download or buy the CDs.
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silmaril8n
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject: Re: DVD to CD [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Yeah... I'd just download the ISO's and burn them to CD's. |
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FishyMike
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject: Re: DVD to CD [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| silmaril8n wrote: |
| Yeah... I'd just download the ISO's and burn them to CD's. |
If I have to download any iso's then I want Suse10.0. Where can I find not so old versions of Suse. |
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nlinecomputers
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: DVD to CD [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Same places you find 10.1. Just change the url to 10.0 where it says 10.1 |
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FishyMike
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject: Re: DVD to CD [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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Im not disputing any given information here. I am at present downloading iso's. Im just passing on information that I found today.
Creating installation CDs from the DVD
For SUSE, you can create writable CD ISO images for installation on a DVD drive-less machine. This can be done from within an existing Linux installation. Using the Jigdo system, you can assemble CD images from the DVD contents within minutes - but you only need to run one command. Mount your DVD and enter the following in a terminal:
sh /mnt/cdrom/Distros/SUSE/mkiso
This will create five ISO images in your current directory. Of course, you'll need to change /mnt/cdrom to another location if your DVD is mounted elsewhere. To create the ISOs somewhere else, give the path as an argument, such as:
sh /mnt/cdrom/Distros/SUSE/mkiso /tmp/iso
Note that you should not cd to the directory on the DVD when running this script. It'll be slower because the script will be unable to open the cache file used to speed up the process. If you're short of space, you can create single ISO images (here for disc 2):
sh /mnt/cdrom/Distros/SUSE/mkiso -d 2
If you get an error like '../../Essentials/Jigdo/jigdo-file: Permission denied', your DVD has been mounted with the noexec option, which prevents running programs directly from the disc. For security, this is implicit if the DVD is mounted with the user option. To fix this, copy the file Essentials/Jigdo/jigdo-file from the DVD to somewhere in your path - /usr/local/bin is a good choice. mkiso will then use this in preference to the file on the DVD.
Note: if you use this Jigdo method, skip the Media Check stage at the start of installation -- the changes made to the discs could cause it to fail. This is harmless. |
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nlinecomputers
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: DVD to CD [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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Like hell if you are not disputing the information here. You sure are AND CORRECTLY I might add!    
I didn't know Suse had jigdo images on the DVD. That's so cool!
Great find! |
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