How do you make a dvd from the cd's
 

I want to make a dvd from the 5 cd's or better still the iso's what is the easiest way to do this?

Using K3B if possible?



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Yes, k3b burns single and dual layer dvd's with proper hardware. I'm not sure what you mean by burning 5 CD's as a DVD. If you mean the Suse 9.3 distro, the DVD iso is freely available at opensuse.org. If you mean something else, you're going to have to be more specific.

I want to make a dvd from the 5 cd's of the 10 beta 3 x86_64, as far as I know this is not available as a dvd iso.

Thanks still need to figure out how you make a dvd from 5 cd's. I have seen a website before for this on one of the replies, but cannot remember where.

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Yes, it can be done but has nothing to do with k3b. You have to recreate the package lists and then make a bootable iso. Not worth the trouble for a beta, if you ask me. But, you aren't, so nevermind.

This has been asked before in the last two or three weeks. Search in the Suse forum for a thread similar to yours and there is post with an answer to your question.

That's the problem I have seen this question, often answered before and the search is not finding it for me. I know it is a regular question and this time I'm definitely going to write the answer down somewhere safe.



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I found something in a german SUSE forum. I have not tested it myself. This is a crude translation:

1. create a new folder (here: /tmp)
2. mount all ISO's one by one
mount -o loop -t iso9660 Isodatei1.iso /mnt
copy the content of /mnt to /tmp
repeat with all ISO's
3. open a console, login as root, cd to /tmp and type mkisofs -v -r -J -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o /tmp/meine.iso
15 min you will get the iso file (here: meine.iso), which you can burn to DVD.

Source: http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?t=40348

You can also download the LINUX version of Nero and make the bootable DVD

use the following in the BOOT parameters for Nero

options BOOTABLE DVD
ISO == 1999

Boot Image --ISOLINUX.BIN
No Emulation
Nr of Sectors 4


Extract all the files from the CD's to /TMP as the previous post says

Then Burn the compilation.


You cam also do it on 'DOZE' if you have Nero on 'DOZE -- use something like ISOBUSTER to extract the boot (isolinux.bin ) image from CD 1.

Try it with a DVD+RW / DVD-RW first to avoid wasting media in case of an error --set the ISO option to 1999 so you can use very long file names.

Cheers
-K

Guys,
There is an excellent tool available on the net tailor made for such requirements and its called.....
JIGDO
although some claim it works only for Debian based systems,but i know a lot of people who have successfully used it for/under other distros.

Jigdo links.........
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/

u need to search around a bit for templates and the exact methodology to be adopted, but if u r willing to take pain u can really finish ur task effectively