ripping dual layer DVDs

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 16 June 2005 02:55 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 June 2005 12:58 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > Anyone know of a way to rip dual layer data DVDs?  SuSE, in their
> > > infinite wisdom ships 9.3 x86-64 only on a dual layer DVD.  I can't
> > > figure out how to rip the data from both layers so that I can later
> > > burn each of the layers to their own DVD.  I'm pretty sure I'd need a
> > > dual layer capable DVD burner to burn a dual layer image, but i'm quite
> > > happy to just burn each layer to its own DVD with my old-skool DVD
> > > burner.
> >
> > Here's what I did.   Note:   I ran each of the ls commands below without
> > the 'rm' part first to check and see what would be deleted.
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) Copy entire DVD to HD     (to  <tmp>)
> > 2) delete the suse/x86_64 directory
> > 3) Create new X86_64 directory.
> >
> > cd <tmp>/suse/i586
> >
> > ls --color=never aspell-[a-z]*|grep -v -- -en-|grep -v devel|xargs rm
> > ls --color=never OpenOffice_org-[a-z]*|grep -v gnome|grep -v kde|grep -v
> > Quick|grep -v -en- | xargs rm
> > ls --color=never ispell-*|grep -v american|grep -v 3.2.06|xargs rm
> >
> > cd <tmp>/suse/noarch
> >
> > ls --color=never yast2-trans-*|grep -v -en_|grep -v stats|xargs rm
> > ls --color=never susehelp_[a-z]*|grep -v en|xargs rm
> > ls --color=never suselinux-adminguide*|grep -v en|xargs rm
> > ls --color=never suselinux-userguide*|grep -v _en|xargs rm
> > ls --color=never myspell-*|grep -v american|xargs rm
> > ls --color=never k*-i18*|grep -v en|xargs rm
> >
> >
> > cd <tmp>/suse
> >
> > (change drive letters below to suit)
> >
> > growisofs -Z /dev/hdb -J -r -l -no-emul-boot -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin
> > -c boot/loader/boot.cat -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table .
> >
> >
> >
> > For the X64 disk, delete the <tmp>/suse/i586  and i686  directories. 
> > That should be sufficient.
>
> Only one question right now.  After doing the above, is the new ISO image
> going to be bootable and installable?

Yes....