On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:59:04 +0100 Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:21:30 +0000 Stroller > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I thought to do was to break the .iso into a multi-part .zip > > archive, transfer the separate files over to the Windows PC and then > > unzip them back into the original big file using Explorer's built-in The problem is that fat32 can't handle files that are larger than 4gb-1byte. So, will still be unable to unzip or unrar that iso image. Unzip would just stop with an error when it reaches that limit. This is a technical limitation of fat32 itself. There is nothing unzip or unrar could do about this. Fat32 just can't index more than 2^32 (4294967296) bytes. It uses 32 bits to index a given file, and any number above that (well, above 4294967295, since we start at 0) just doesn't fit into a 32 bits word. Which means that fat32 can't handle it. You have many other alternatives: use ntfs or even ext3/2. I know that there are drivers to use these filesystems on windows, I don't know how good or bad they are, though. :) -- Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
