Making a DVD from the CD's

From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 08/12/05 

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:51:05 -0000

I think this has been asked several times before. I am not sure if there
still is a real need for it, but here is the solution as given on the
openSUSE mailing list:

> Q: Hello, is there a way to merge the four setup cd's into one dvd

You may copy the contents of all the CDs into a directory and regenerate
an
ISO to burn to a DVD.

First of all, install the package "autoyast2". If there are directories
whose name is "media.2", "media.3" and so on, remove them and leave only
"media.1". Now edit media.1/media and change "4" to "1" in the third line.
This means the number of CDs or DVDs you're going to have, and since
you're going to burn it to one DVD you have to put "1".

Now "cd" to where you've copied all the CDs and run:

create_package_descr -x setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV -l english -l spanish -l
french -l german -l czech -l hungarian -l italian

This will regenerate the package description files, making YaST know
where the files are. Make sure everything inside the "boot" directory has
write permissions. Then generate the iso:

mkisofs -v -V SU100OSS.001 -r -J -l -L -P "SuSE Linux AG" -b
"boot/loader/isolinux.bin" -c "boot/loader/boot.cat" -no-emul-boot
-boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -graft-points -o
~/openSuSE-10.0-beta1-DVD.iso .

Open K3b and burn it. :) 

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