Urza9814 Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 I've got a 4GB file that I need to back up on a DVD. I tried burning it with k3b, but it says the file is too big. I was thinking maybe I could split it with ark, but it won't load in the file (well, it sat there for about an hour and didn't do anything) and I couldn't find any way to split an archive anyways. What's the fastest, easiest way to be able to burn this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Make sure that you burn it as an UDF file as not an ISO file, as ISO only supports some 900 MB maximum. You can alternatively split the file (see "man split"; e.g. split -b 1073741824 <filename.dat> for creating 4 files that are 1 GB big) and burn it in pieces or e.g. use some terminal commands. For the following procedure you will need some free disk-space (~3-4 GB). I will do it without much explanation of every command (use man for finding out more about the commands, as I am too lazy to explain everything this time in detail). Launch: dd bs=4k if=/dev/zero of=diskimg.udf count=num then type dd bs=2k count=1000 > diskimg.udf now run mkudffs diskimg.udf for creating the filesystem. Take care of the parameter --media-type. Now you will have to mount of the diskimg.udf file with a loop and copy your files into it. Once this is done, unmount it again. Finally, burn the diskimg.udf file to dvd. I know, a bit problematic and hard to understand, so use UDF mode in K3B first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted September 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2006 (edited) I already tried setting it to UDF with no luck...but...it appears I don't have mkudffs installed. Might be helpful :) ...but sadly...it won't install. Won't even configure. [root@Arochone udftools-1.0.0b3]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for more details. I looked at config.log a bit...it's quite big, but these errors jumped out pretty quick: configure:2536: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5 configure:2493:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory configure:2494:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory configure:2495:22: error: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory configure:2498: error: syntax error before '*' token configure:2498: warning: 'struct stat' declared inside parameter list configure:2498: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is pr obably not what you want configure:2498: warning: data definition has no type or storage class configure:2517: error: syntax error before 'FILE' configure:2517: warning: 'struct stat' declared inside parameter list configure:2517: error: 'pairnames' declared as function returning a function configure:2517: error: syntax error before 'int' configure:2539: $? = 1 Edited September 9, 2006 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted September 9, 2006 Report Share Posted September 9, 2006 i think tar can also split stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 9, 2006 Report Share Posted September 9, 2006 What option did you choose in K3B? Normally I just choose the Burn DVD image, and that works every time. I just have a standard Mandriva install too, so it should work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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