Sysresccd-manual-en How to burn a DVD with SystemRescue and 4 GB more files
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[edit] Introduction
It is possible to burn SysRescCd on a DVD disc (DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW), and to copy 4 GB of data files on this disc. It allows to make a disc with both your backup files, and the system that allows to restore it. A simple layer DVD provides 4.3 GB of space. Since SysRescCd uses about 100 MB, you will have about 4.2 GB of free space. It allows to copy quite big image files (you can make an image of your system with partimage, ntfsclone, ghost, DriveImage, ...)
This manual explains how to make such a bootable DVD under Linux, but it should be possible to do the same under Windows with Nero.
[edit] Requirements
Of course, you need a DVD burner, a disc. You also need an installed Linux system, with dvd+rw-tools. If you don't have this software, you can download on the following homepage: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
You need to know the device name of your DVD burner. If you don't know it, you may find it with dmesg. You should see something like this:
# dmesg | grep DVD hdd: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(33)
In this example, the two output lines allow to know the device name. It's "/dev/hdd". This was tested under Linux-2.4.26, with dvd+rw-tools-5.17, on a DVD+RW, and the device was "Pioneer DVR-106D". It is supposed to work with all kind of DVD discs, and all DVD burners.
[edit] First step: burn the official SysRescCd ISO image
In this first step, we will just burn the official 120 MB image on the DVD disc.
growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.iso
Of course, you have to replace "hdd" with the device name of your burner, and update the path to the ISO file.
[edit] Second step: add your own files
Now, we will add files to the disc. All the files you want to add have to be stored in the same directory. In this example, we suppose files are stored in /home/user/mydvd-data-files/:
growisofs -M /dev/hdd -J -R /home/user/mydvd-data-files/
It should be possible to add files several times by running this command several times.
