On 25/09/11 13:40, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I purchased a Bible concordance program for the i386, and received the > program on a set of DVDs. The problem is that I need to install the > program on a laptop which has no optical drive, but only USB ports. > > So it appears to me that I need to find: > > (1) a procedure for creating a set of DVD images (using a desktop > machine with a DVD optical drive), and
dd is the CLI procedure. eg.:- Find out where CD/DVD mounts and device name by inserting CD root@work:/home/scott# mount | grep cdrom /dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom0 type udf (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=scott) Unmounting CD/DVD so it can be imaged (you can just eject it). root@work:/home/scott# umount /media/cdrom0 Image it. root@work:/home/scott# dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/home/scott/dvd00.iso 1227520+0 records in 1227520+0 records out 628490240 bytes (628 MB) copied, 77.6551 s, 8.1 MB/s root@work:/home/scott# ls -lh /home/scott | grep .iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 600M Sep 26 12:53 dvd00.iso > > (2) a procedure for copying the images to a set of USB flash > sticks, so that the images can be read as if they were on DVD. Just "copy" the .ISO files using a file manager or "cp". Then, "mount" the images on the machine you want to use them:- root@work:/home/scott# mount -o loop,ro /path_to/images/dvd00.iso /media/cdrom0 Then run your program - it will now "see" a "mounted" CD/DVD where you have neither a (hardware) CD/DVD device or a physical CD/DVD. > > RLH > > I'd also suggest you take a look at BibleTime - which does what your program does, and much, much more. Choose from many Bibles, commentaries, guides, etc. Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7fee19.30...@gmail.com
