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Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] New k3b-1.0 problem
From:       Gene Heskett <gene.heskett () verizon ! net>
Date:       2007-06-26 14:54:24
Message-ID: 200706261054.24397.gene.heskett () verizon ! net
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On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Boyan Tabakov wrote:
>On Tuesday 26 June 2007 02:18:58 Gene Heskett wrote:
>> K3b did burn the bare .rar, the biggest on of the 5, by using the burn iso
>> menu.  It said there was about 530MB of disk space left when it burnt it.
>> K3b complained that it wasn't an iso, but burnt it anyway, but it did not
>> successfully compare.
>>
>> I've re-inserted the disk, and k3b looks like its returning valid data
>> from the disk, but nothing else I have tried seems able to mount it.  I'll
>> try dd next, dumping it back to a renamed file & see what falls out of
>> that operation.  Otherwise I see I'll have to un-rar it and build my own
>> data dvd from that.
>
>That is only natural - you haven't created a file system on the disk, you
> have burnt the raw data. You will not be able to mount that disk. You can
> still read the data raw (with dd, for example, and UltraISO on a Windows
> system).
>
>As Boyd pointed out, the ISO 9660 generally supports file sizes up to 2GB.
>Depending on the implementation, however, it appears that even 4.2GB files
>can be successfully burnt
>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso9660#The_2_GiB_.28or_4.2GB_depending_on_imp
>lementation.29_file_size_limit).
>
>Enabling the UDF extensions in K3B (note that it states that it has limited
>support for UDF) will allow you to burn files as big as 4GB.
>
>Anyway, the best thing to do is split the archive.
>
>Cheers

Oddly, once I'd located an un-rar, it was the .iso inside, and I just 
successfully burnt the biggest one.  And everybody lived happily ever 
after. :-)

-- 
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)
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
		-- Steinbach
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