ripping dual layer DVDs

[Net Llama!]

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.

Nevermind, i see what the problem is.  I'm about 115MB too big for a 4.7GB
DVD.  Bruce, how did you make this work?

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