[KLUG Members] CD / DVD burning

[John Pesce]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 16:20, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > > > How can I burn a 2.9 GB file to a DVD.
> > > > mkisofs reports that the file is ignored because it is too large.
> > 
> > under rh9 mkisofs gave the error that the file was too big.
> > under Suse 9.1 it doesn't give the error but the effect is the same.
> > When I burn the DVD or when I mount the iso with the loop option the
> > 2.9GB file is only 7+MB and diff fails.
> >
> > > Is it really mkisofs that's giving the error, or cdrecord?  I ran
> > > mkisofs on my SuSE 9.2 system on a 2.5GB file and it works fine.
> > 
> > Did you try mounting the iso? What options did you make it with?
> 
> No, I didn't mount the ISO.  Exactly what options did you give to
> mkisofs so I can try it exactly the same as you?
> 

I used:
mkisofs -r -f -J -o iso_image.iso my_tree


>Has anyone tried the nautilus cd burner with a DVD drive?  Honestly, I
>make most by CDs by right clicking on the ISO file and clicking "Burn
>To CD" or doing a Go->"CD Creator".  But I only have a CD burner;  do
>these work with a DVD drive?

Adam: 
I haven't tried nautilus. This isn't a problem burning large .iso files,
this is a problem burning large >2GB files in the directory tree.