On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:26:21PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> : But DVD-* media is cheaper and I see no advantage in using DVD+ media. > >> > >> Other advantages are the ability to completely fill the disks (> 4 GB > >> iso files are a problem on 32 bit systems) and not needing free space > >> for the disk images. > > >"When you don't know what you are talking about. Shut up". :-) > > See above ;-)......
I won't say what one of my teachers in school said about this topic. > >You can't make a single file bigger than 2 GB in an ISO-Filesystem, > >corect. But that is a limitation in of the ISO-Filesystem itself. > > The OP did not talk about single files _inside_ an ISO FS but about ISO-FILES > which usually is a file holding an ISO FS as content. As i said below. That problem doesn't exist (anymore). :-) The 2GB problem is the only size-problem i know. So i included the rant about that limitation to make a (more or less) technically correct statement. Point. > Future versions of mkisofs will allow you to use > 2 GB files in UDF > filesystems. You should rename the program. It doesn't "feel" correct anymore. OK currently you can't skip the ISO-FS. But AFAIR you once said that you will make it possibel to skip the ISO-FS from the image. mkufs mkimg mkhybrid :-) mk_image_suitable_for_burning_on_a_CD-R(W)_or_DVD(-/+)R(W)_(or_other_medium) Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
