Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (218 mails)

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Re: [suse-amd64] DVD - no boot
  • From: Harald Milz <hm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:31:26 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <20050719052643.13DC684C45@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Samuel Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike Roy wrote:
> > Hello everyone:
> > I'm running SuSE 9.3 / 64-bit mode and I
> > tried to make a back-up copy of the dual-layer DVD.

> You need to make a bit-level "raw" copy of the, and not just copy the
> files on the dvdrom. Otherwise you will not copy the dvd's boot sector.
> I think you need to select clone copy in k3b. (I generally use the
> command line.)

Oh my. Why don't you just use dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.iso? Are you so far
away from base Linux that you need a GUI for that?

--
"... I should explain that I was wearing a black velvet cape that was
supposed to make me look like the dashing, romantic Zorro but which
actually made me look like a gigantic bat wearing glasses ..."
-- Dave Barry, "The Wet Zorro Suit and Other Turning
Points in l'Amour"

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