ripping dual layer DVDs

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Bruce Marshall wrote:

> 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?)

I deleted all of the kde* noarch stuff, and was able to successfully burn
the DVD.  However, when trying to install, the installer is failing to
locate RPMs that are clearly present on the DVD when i mount it manually.

Something is borked somewhere.

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