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Re: [LUG] Burning multiple isos to one disc?

 

You need to change the contents of the ISO itself to change the
contents of the final disk.

I think that file roller will let you see the contents (although it's
been ages since i've ran gnome, don't know if it's still around) and
i'm sure there are plenty of other tools for editing .iso files.

I've never heard of burning more than one (iso) to a disk though, for
instance if you had two Linux distros, how could both ISO's install
boot/toc information on a single disk?  Running two instances of linux
from one disk would require a boot loader such as LILO to be set up
correctly to run the selected installer, but this is more complicated
than just burning two isos to one disk, and in this case, both linux
distros would be contained in a single iso.

You can fit more than one film on a dvd disk, but you'll still need to
create a single dvd .iso that contains both films with a menu set up
so you can select one or the other to watch.  You may well run into
quality issues if you use the highest compression on a dvd to get lots
on it, especially if your films have been encoded to another format
such as divx.

I'd suggest a bit of reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 if you're interested.

I've heard of utilities that can mount .iso files as if they we're
"burned" and inserted into the appropriate drive for the media they
contain, although i'm not sure whats about for linux.

On 04/02/07, Jonathan Roberts <jonathan.roberts.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if it was possible to burn more than one iso to a
> disc? My plan was to burn one iso that would play in a DVD player,
> i.e. a few short films, and another that would boot into Knoppix on to
> one disc. I've been looking at the cdrecord man pages and mkisofs etc
> but I don't seem to be making much progress!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
>
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