On Monday 25 June 2007, John Wendel wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I've downloaded an archive of stuff for a legacy computer, which is in the >> form of dvd sized .rar files. >> >> The author of the collection is/was distributing it on dvd's for a nominal >> fee to cover the cost of the disks, or it was downloadable from his web >> page. >> >> The first of these files is 4,635,746,513 bytes long, so it would be a >> tight fit on a dvd. k3b says the disk in the drive is 4.4GB, and krusader >> says the file is 4.3GB so at least those two are using the same base 1024 >> numbering system for a kilobyte. >> >> So it should fit but it appears k3b is rejecting anything over 4.0GB as >> the size varies, rejecting a smaller 4.1GB file, but accepting a 3.8GB >> file. >> >> This doesn't sound terribly kosher to me since the author of the >> collection obviously has the tools to burn even the 4635746513 (decimal) >> byte file to a dvd. >> >> So what's the recommended procedure to do this? Or do I file a bugzilla, >> take a tater & wait? >> >> Thanks. > >Just burned several 4.3GB files last night. I assume you're using the >latest and greatest K3B (since you use the latest and greatest >everything else). Do you have the "allow overburning" option set? Yes. I had it burn it as if it was an iso. k3b complained but did burn it. Nothing I have can mount the disk or open it as a file. So I had dd copy it back, and it copied back just under 8k more than was written. I've had a cmp running for about the last 15 minutes with no errors, yet... Tweren't any: root@coyote trs-80 archives]# cmp "trs-80.com 5-2005 [disc 1 of 5].rar" test-disk-1.rar cmp: EOF on trs-80.com 5-2005 [disc 1 of 5].rar So I'd assume unrar would just throw away the padding? Time to mkdir a disk1 dir, cd to it and unrar that thing. Humm, inside the .rar, is the .iso. Why did he bother? Anyway, now I have a handle on it, and while thats running, kmail just froze for 30 secs and died. But, it never lost a character! Anyway, now I know what to do with the rest of them, so many thanks for the hand-holding. >Have you tried using growisofs directly? Man growisofs has all the >details. No, that was sort of a last resort. With my propensity for typu's, its probably better that way :-) >Regards, > >John -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Jayne: "Go hwong-tong [Enough of this nonsense]. No trouble now, little crazy person... we're going for a nice shuttle ride..." --"Serenity"
