Overcoming the 2GB limit in writing a dvd iso to disk

Jeffrey D. Yuille jeffy5 at optonline.net
Thu Nov 30 01:36:45 UTC 2006


Tony Nelson wrote:
> 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. 
> 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.
>   
Hello Tony,

     Thanks for the reply.  How can I split the iso file into 2gb 
segments?  I am not aware of how to do this.  The actual iso file that I 
am trying to burn to a dvd disk is the Fedora Core DVD iso.  The iso 
file size is 3.3.gb, which exceeds the 2gb size. 






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