Overcoming the 2GB limit in writing a dvd iso to disk

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 7:06 PM -0500 11/29/06, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
>>  
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>     Does anyone know how to overcome the 2gb limit in writing a dvd iso
>>> image to a dvd-r disk. 
>> It sounds like you are trying to make an new iso containing an iso. 
>> If so,
>> split the file into 2 GB segments.  ISO9660 file fragments can't be
>> larger
>> than 2 GB, and multiple fragment support is iffy.  If not, just burn the
>> iso to the disk.
>>   
> Hello Tony,
> 
>     Thanks for the reply.  How can I split the iso file into 2gb
> segments?  I am not aware of how to do this.  The actual iso file that I
> am trying to burn to a dvd disk is the Fedora Core DVD iso.  The iso
> file size is 3.3.gb, which exceeds the 2gb size.

This sounds like you are trying to burn a DVD which contains a single
ISO file in its filesystem, instead of burning the ISO file to the disk!
 There is no problem burning ISO images greater than 2GB to DVDs.  I
recently burned 7GB to a double layer DVD-R.  The problem only exists
trying to put files larger than 2GB into iso9660 filesystems (which you
then want to burn to DVDs).

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