How to rip DVD to VCD?

alan alan at clueserver.org
Mon Jan 29 20:57:22 UTC 2007


On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 22:06 -0600, Kevin K wrote:
>
>>
>> If you are talking about creating installation CDs for a computer
>> that doesn't have a DVD reader, it would probably be simplest to just
>> go to a fedora mirror site, and download the 5 installation CDs.  It
>> would probably be some work trying to decide which packages have to
>> be on each CD.
>>
>
> Lot of bandwidth.
> It would probably be better to use boot.iso and do a network install -
> using the DVD on a nearby computer as the network source.

Even simpler is to just buy a DVD drive.  They are about $30 these days.

The hard part will not be the bandwidth of downloading the CD installs. 
If that is a problem, updating to the current packages after the install 
will be just as big of a pain.

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