Burning a DVD from a DVD

JP · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2024 5:57 am Post subject: Burning a DVD from a DVD

I bought the Latest Issue of Linux Format which had Suse 9.2 'live' on DVD plus some other things. When I opened it up to see if I could burn a Suse 9.2 CD from the files, It was in so many different directories I couldn't make sense of it. So now, I'd just like to burn a copy of the whole thing. I transferred all of the files to my hard drive in /home/suse9.2downloads. Every time I try to burn it with K3b, I'm told it can't be burned. I realized that it is no longer an ISO now, just files, so how do I make it a bootable ISO that can be burnt to DVD? Confused

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lynch · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2024 10:19 am Post subject:

Copy it to your hard drive as an .iso and then burn the image to disk. In kb3, you can go to Tools> DVD> Copy DVD and do it that way.
HTH
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brewer13210 · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2024 2:58 pm Post subject:

There are plenty of ways to skin this cat, but using the files you copied to your hard drive, you can use 'mkisofs' to create the ISO and something like K3B to burn it.

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JP · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2024 10:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks, if one way doesn't work, the other one should Smile

I appreciate the help. Very Happy

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JP · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2024 12:11 am Post subject:

Germ · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2024 1:07 am Post subject:

That's probably all the room you have on the partition. Set k3b to use a partition with more free space for the ISO.

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lynch · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2024 9:49 am Post subject:

JP · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2024 9:53 am Post subject:

lynch, as root, I made a /tmp directory on the hdb partition, but K3b said I can't write to the /tmp directory I created. I don't understand that Confused

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lynch · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2024 12:02 pm Post subject:

Create the directory in /home/jp/ as a regular user.
lynch

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Germ · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2024 3:21 pm Post subject:

JP · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2024 6:58 pm Post subject:

Naw, that was all in root. I'll get rid of that directory and start a new one as user. THX Smile

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JP · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2024 10:24 pm Post subject:

Thanks all, I followed just about all the above posts, and was able to make a new directory in /home, called it /home/jp/k3b-tmp, then I changed the path of the burn to that directory and burned it. Now, my next project is to try the "mkisofs" that brewer was showing me. I don't have a big enuff RAM in this box, so I'll send it off to get it checked by someone who has a better computer than I do Wink

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JP · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2024 10:41 pm Post subject:

Germ · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2024 10:47 pm Post subject:

try it as root. Actually, you may need to use growisofs instead.

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JP · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2024 1:10 am Post subject:

germ Tried it as root with both mkisofs and growisofs, same results. I did notice one thing that might help someone figure out the problem; for the first few thousand lines it says

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