ripping dual layer DVDs

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 24 June 2005 03:20 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.
>
> 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?

I made a 64bit dvd for someone and I assumed it worked since he never got back 
to me.

But I think the 'noarch' directory can also be deleted.

Other than that, go through and find some big things you don't need  
(flightgear?) (other games?)   

Shouldn't take much to get down by 115MB.