Backup the iLife '06 Dual-Layered DVD onto Single-Layered DVD-R

In another closed posting, someone mentioned that they were going to use Toast 7 to create a backup of the Dual-Layered iLife '06 DVD onto a regular Single-Layered DVD-R.
Does anyone know HOW to do this? I have T7 and can't figure out how. I want to accomplish the same task. But it seems to me that if it breaks up the installer between two DVD-R's, then how can you use these 2 DVD's if the original goes bad? Please explaine.
thx.jas.

When you span the discs using Toast, the program
(Toast) copies a program called Roxio restore. You
would open this program up and let it do its magic
and combine both DVDs into one again!
So then does that mean you'll need twice the hard drive space available?
I mean, it seems to me that this way Toast would need to copy all the contents of the DVD's to your hard drive to combine them. Then once on your hard drive you can run the installer. So instead of needing ~6gb of available space for the normal installation, you'll need ~12gb of available space for the copy AND the installation (then, of course once installed, can trash the installers freeing up that original ~6gb of space).
If this scenerio is true, and one doesn't have ~12gb of available space, then what?
This doesn't seem to me to be a very good option.
thoughts?
-jason.

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