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Re: [opensuse] Merging the 4 Setup CDs into one DVD
  • From: Miles Harrison <milesharrison@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:48:26 +0100
  • Message-id: <8f83c3f105081117481b0ff1ae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cheers buddy, giving it a go now!

miles

On 8/11/05, Víctor Fernández Martínez <vfernandez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You may copy the contents of all the CDs into a directory and regenerate
> an
> ISO to burn to a DVD.
>
> First of all, install the package "autoyast2". If there are directories
> whose
> name is "media.2", "media.3" and so on, remove them and leave only "
> media.1".
> Now edit media.1/media and change "4" to "1" in the third line. This means
> the number of CDs or DVDs you're going to have, and since you're going to
> burn it to one DVD you have to put "1".
>
> Now "cd" to where you've copied all the CDs and run:
>
> create_package_descr -x setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV -l english -l spanish -l
> french
> -l german -l czech -l hungarian -l italian
>
> This will regenerate the package description files, making YaST know where
> the
> files are. Make sure everything inside the "boot" directory has write
> permissions. Then generate the iso:
>
> mkisofs -v -V SU100OSS.001 -r -J -l -L -P "SuSE Linux AG" -b
> "boot/loader/isolinux.bin" -c "boot/loader/boot.cat" -no-emul-boot
> -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -graft-points -o
> ~/openSuSE-10.0-beta1-DVD.iso .
>
> Open K3b and burn it. :)
>
>
>
> El Jueves, 11 de Agosto de 2005 20:03, Miles Harrison escribió:
> > Hello, is there a way to merge the four setup cd's into one dvd so i
> dont
> > need to change them, also, that will give me faster transfer rates.
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> > Thanks
> > miles
>
> --
> Víctor Fernández Martínez
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