Re: [SLE] 9.2 DVD question.

From: Chris H (chris123_at_magma.ca)
Date: 11/11/04

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:26:42 -0500

    On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:03, James Knott wrote:

    ref: http://www.linux-community.de/story?storyid=14798

    Perhaps this helps; a transliteration..:)

    My SuSE 9.2 arrived yesterday. In case you havent noticed the Installation DVD
    is a dual layer DVD according to SuSE. Dang..that sucks. DVD blanks are
    expensive and you need special burner to duplicate such a DVD. So I need to
    find a reliable method to duplicate this DVD so that the original could be
    stored and archived in a safe place and maintain one copy in my Laptop to add
    additional software.

    Note: From the original DVD only half (approx) of the data is necessary.
    Specifically;

    -KDE for english and german only
    -Variouse office packages for non english and german users
    -Various spell checkers for non english and german users
    -all 64 bit programs

    Here is how I did it. The following is assumed throughout the instruction
    -everything is done in a shell terminal as user root
    -#...means prompt
    -everything to the right of # is a command that needs to be executed
    -lines without a # represent output

    First mount the original DVD as follows;

    # mount /cdrom

    You will need a free partition of approx 4 gig. On my system its a partition I
    call "/data" On my system I create a tmp file that contains the data as
    follows. "/data/tmp/suse92" To this directory I copied the necessary software

    # mkdir /data/tmp/suse92
    # cd /cdrom
    # cp -p * /data/tmp/suse92
    cp: Verzeichnis <- no entry found ?boot? ausgelassen <- omitted
    cp: Verzeichnis ?docu? ausgelassen
    cp: Verzeichnis ?dosutils? ausgelassen
    cp: Verzeichnis ?media.1? ausgelassen
    cp: Verzeichnis ?suse? ausgelassen
    # cp -a boot /data/tmp/suse92
    # cp -a docu /data/tmp/suse92
    # cp -a dosutils /data/tmp/suse92
    # cp -a media.1 /data/tmp/suse92
    # mkdir /data/tmp/suse92/suse
    # cp -a suse/i586 /data/tmp/suse92/suse
    # cp -a suse/i686 /data/tmp/suse92/suse
    # cp -a suse/noarch /data/tmp/suse92/suse
    # cp -a suse/setup /data/tmp/suse92/suse
    # cd /data/tmp/suse92/suse
    # mkdir x86_64
    # chmod +w *

    Next step is remove unnecessary things;

    # cd /data/tmp/suse92/suse/i586
    # ls aspell-[a-z]*|grep -v -- -de-|grep -v -- -en-|grep -v devel|xargs rm
    # ls OpenOffice_org-[a-z]*|egrep -v "(gnome)|(kde)|(Quick)|(-de-)|(-en-)"|
    xargs rm
    # cd /data/tmp/suse92/suse/noarch
    # ls ispell-*|grep -v german|xargs rm
    # ls yast2-trans-*|egrep -v "(-en)|(-de)"|xargs rm
    # ls susetour-[a-z]*|grep -v de|grep -v en|xargs rm
    # ls susehelp_[a-z]*|grep -v de|grep -v en|xargs rm
    # ls suselinux-adminguide*|egrep -v "(_de)|(_en)"|xargs rm
    # ls suselinux-userguide*|egrep -v "(_de)|(_en)"|xargs rm
    # ls myspell-*|egrep -v "(german)|(american)|(british)"|xargs rm
    # ls k*-i18n*|egrep -v -- "-(de)|(en)"|xargs rm

    So far we have completed collecting the raw data. Now we need to burn it to a
    DVD. My burner is "/dev/hdd"

    # cd /data/tmp/suse92
    # growisofs -Z /dev/hdd -J -r -l -no-emul-boot \
        -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin -c boot/loader/boot.cat\
        -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table .

    Works wonderfully for me.

    Ok thats about it...enjoy!!

    /ch 

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