Copy /b Amalgamate ISO Files to DVD

Credit where credit is due:

A contributor, SlackerLX, at Linuxquestions.org has an interesting post describing the process of amalagamating CD ISO files (Suse 10.0) into a DVD ISO file using the DOS Copy command with the /b switch.

While I haven't had time to try booting to the DVD I created, everything up to this point has worked like a hot damn.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...postid=1893906

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General procedure for DVD conversion. The DVD image is combined from five parts.
To create a usable image, you must:

* download the five component files,
* use a utility that can verify a file's MD5 checksum to confirm each file has
been successfully downloaded,
* combine these files into a single file,
* use DVD burning software and hardware to copy the ISO image to disk.

Procedure:

1. Download the following component files:
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD1.iso
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD2.iso
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD3.iso
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD4.iso
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD5.iso
NOTE:
You should verify each file has not been corrupted during its download via an "mdsum check", which compares your downloaded file against the checksum of the file on server. There are various free utilities to do this available for all popular operating systems.

2. Rename each file like so:

SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD1.iso into SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-1
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD2.iso into SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-2
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD3.iso into SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-3
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD4.iso into SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-4
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD5.iso into SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-5

3. Combine the five parts into the DVD image; two examples of how to do this are below.

For Linux:

Use the cat command to copy the files in the correct order into a single file named "SUSE-10.0-OSS-i386-GM-DVD.iso"

#cat SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-[12345] > SUSE-10.0-OSS-i386-GM-DVD.iso

For Windows:

Use the Copy command with the /b flag to copy the files in the correct order into a
single file named "SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-DVD.iso"

copy /b SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-1 + SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-2 +
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-3 + SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-4 +
SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-iso-5 SUSE-10.0-OSS-i386-GM-DVD.iso

You should now have one image ready to be burned to a DVD.

Use the software that supports your DVD burner to create a DVD using this image file (e.g. Roxio Easy Media Creator on a Windows system or Alcohol 120%. Make sure you use the kind of media supported by your DVD burner. There are DVD-R/DVD-RW as well as DVD+R/DVD+RW recordable DVDs. Not all DVD burners support both. Do not use DVD+R DL (dual layer) discs.