Re: Making a DVD from the CD's
From: Patrick Grimbergen (patrick_at_grimweb.info)
Date: 08/12/05
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:27:53 +0200
Darrell Stec wrote:
> After serious contemplation, on or about Thursday 11 August 2005 7:51 pm
> houghi@houghi.org.invalid wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> In a related topic, I am trying to save the YAST System Backup on to DVD
> disks. I've wasted 6 disks so far in failed attempts. I figured out that
> I could make a custom profile just for that set up. I set the size of the
> disk for 4700 MB because that was the size that the disks are supposed to
> hold. When System Backup finishes it makes two files 01_backup.taar which
> is 4.4 GIG and 02_backup.tar which is 3.8 GIG, plus a small backup.xml
> file.
>
> I try to burn the 01_backup.tar file onto a DVD using k3b. When I drag the
> file into the burn area, it shows the file takes up space just shy of 4.6
> GIG with 0 bytes free. It pretends to write but I get a file size error
> and and empty unusable DVD.
>
> I read that some older versions of SuSE had a 4 GIG maximum limit but that
> the limitation had been fixed. Does anybody save their System Backup files
> to DVD and how do you do it? Do I need to make the YAST System Backup size
> smaller? And if so, what should it be? Or is there some setting I need to
> look into that I missed in k2b? At the rate I'm destroying DVDs, I'll
> never be able to afford my Diet Cherry & Vanilla Dr. Pepper.
>
> Also I successfully downloaded the SuSE 9.3 Evaluation DVD from the Utah
> mirror. It took 5 attempts before I got a successful MD5SUM as the file
> seemed to only load half the program. I then found a suggestion to use
> KGet. That worked rather strangely. First it showed it was only
> downloading a 250 BM file and the top number decreased as the number in the
> bottom panel increased. When both were zero it still seemed busy. After
> about 20 minutes the number jumped to 2.2 GIG and seemed to go into never,
> neverland yet the HD light kept flickering. Eventually it loaded all 4.2
> GIG of the Eval.iso and had a good MD5SUM. I then burned the ISO image
> unto a dvd which said it completed it successfully, however when it
> verified the data I had an error that said the two files didn't match.
> Should they have, or is there a difference because the original was ISO and
> the resulting disk contained regular files? Should I trust the first
> report of a successful burn or the second about the data not matching?
>
> There nothing that engenders as much humility as Linux does (well except
> when I moved from the Sinclair QL to an IBM XT a hundred years ago).
>
>
Yesterday I read that there is a DVD iso as well... damn are they
changing their website rapitly...
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