On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 16:25 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: > I have a 6.5 Gbyte tarball that I want to archive on a dual layer DVD. > Unfortunately, I don't have a dual-layer writer on my PC, however, I > do have access to another (Windows) PC that _does_ have a dual-layer > writer. > > So, I would like to create the .iso on my Linux PC and transfer it to > the other PC. Since I use Gnome as my desktop, I figured I would use > GnomeBaker to create the .iso. Unfortunately, when I do so, I get an > error message that reads: > > mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File > /blah/blah/blah.tar.bz2 is too large - ignoring > > For some reason, this makes me think that mkisofs isn't happy with my > 6.5 Gbyte tarball. I could try k3b (I wonder how that plays in a > Gnome session), but I anticipate the same results. > I have not tried creating a 6.5+gb file and putting the single file on a DVD. Is there a reason it needs to be that large a single file? IIRC a 32bit kernel can only handle a single file of 2gb (or at least that was a limitation until recently). K3b has done everything I have asked it to do flawlessly (in gnome), but I have not tried a dual layer DVD yet. > Does anybody have any better ideas? > > My final fallback will be to transfer the 6.5 Gbyte file to the > Windows PC and burn it directly to the DVD there, but I thought I > would try creating the .iso here first. > I don't think that will work on Windows with a single file that size unless you are running a 64bit OS. > --wpd >
