Overcoming the 2GB limit in writing a dvd iso to disk
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Thu Nov 30 01:17:26 UTC 2006
At 7:06 PM -0500 11/29/06, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
>Hello,
>
> Does anyone know how to overcome the 2gb limit in writing a dvd iso
>image to a dvd-r disk. I am currently using Fedora Core 6 and I just
>bought a dvd burner. What I am finding out is that there is nothing
>wrong with the k3b software I am using, but that there is a file size
>limit of 2gb in trying to burn the software. How do I overcome this? I
>have never run into a problem like this before in buring iso images and
>I would certainly appreciate any help available.
It sounds like you are trying to make an new iso containing an iso. If so,
split the file into 2 GB segments. ISO9660 file fragments can't be larger
than 2 GB, and multiple fragment support is iffy. If not, just burn the
iso to the disk.
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