Thanks Monty Regards Ian On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:42:46 +1100, Monty <monty@home.invalid> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > The following is a set of instructions which was posted in another > newsgroup but not yet tried by me so I can't vouch for them. I > certainly intend to try them in the near future. Incudentally, my > current method with AVRI is to use a virtual drive and four image > files which I load as appropriate. The method described below should > be even simpler. Thanks to D.U. > > Ref: The "LDS Australian Vital Records 1788-1905" 4CD set > > I think that this is the first time I have actually used to data from > this disk set by the LDS, and am passing this info along in case it is > useful to others. > > It is possible to burn the contents of the 4 CD-Roms to one DVD, this > eliminating the need to change dusks, (either physical disks, or > mounted images). > > The Basic method I used was to just copy all the contents of ALL the 4 > CDs to a common direcrory with all the files and dirs as they were, > and just burn the contents to a DVD using ypur favourite burning > software. > > I did give the disk LABEL the name of "AVR_1788" wich may or may not > be required, but does make sense. > > My dsk is not self loading, but is otherwise ok, no need to swap > disks! > > Works like a charm! ...Choice!! > > D.U. > > > > > > A DOS based directory listing shows a view of the files on the > constructed DVD..... > > Volume in drive J is AVR_1788 > Directory of J:\ > > 30/04/2004 07:24 PM <DIR> AVR > 30/04/2004 09:35 PM <DIR> INTRO16 > 25/03/1998 11:27 PM 1,327,118 SETUP.EXE > > Directory of J:\AVR > 20/01/1998 10:30 PM 518,324,224 AVR_AD.NFO > 20/01/1998 10:34 PM 484,708,352 AVR_EK.NFO > 20/01/1998 10:39 PM 513,900,544 AVR_LQ.NFO > 20/01/1998 10:45 PM 513,990,656 AVR_RZ.NFO > 23/12/1997 12:41 AM 2,636 README.TXT > 5 File(s) 2,030,926,412 bytes > > Directory of J:\INTRO16 > 11/12/1997 05:06 PM 381,334 0_INTRO.DXR > 11/12/1997 05:06 PM 448,152 1_OVER.DXR > 11/12/1997 05:07 PM 2,811,150 2_BELIEF.DXR > 11/12/1997 05:07 PM 1,682,765 3_CHHIST.DXR > 11/12/1997 05:07 PM 279,326 4_BOOK.DXR > 11/12/1997 05:07 PM 781,555 5_TEMPLE.DXR > 11/12/1997 05:07 PM 4,604,788 6_JOSEPH.DXR > 11/12/1997 05:08 PM 9,251,576 7_FAMHIS.DXR > 11/12/1997 05:08 PM 201,282 8_MORE.DXR > 04/12/1997 07:05 PM 1,433,120 INTRO16.EXE > 04/12/1997 07:05 PM 1,709,918 INTRO32.EXE > 15/10/1997 09:06 PM 1,056,064 PEDIGREE.BMP > 11/12/1997 05:09 PM 302,959 PRINT.DXR > 15/10/1997 09:05 PM 1,056,064 RESEARCH.BMP > 11/12/1997 05:09 PM 977,805 SHARED.CXT > 30/04/2004 07:32 PM <DIR> XTRAS > 15 File(s) 26,977,858 bytes > > Directory of J:\INTRO16\XTRAS > 02/12/1997 11:33 PM 201,424 PMATIC.X16 > 27/09/1997 08:23 PM 354,816 PMATIC.X32 > 2 File(s) 556,240 bytes > > Total Files Listed: > 23 File(s) 2,059,787,628 bytes