Re:

[Gordon Huff <wa6fmx@worldnet.att.net>]

At 03:41 PM 2/29/2004, Richard Atterer wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:54:09PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:58 am, Stefan Willeit wrote:
> > > How can i get a debian dvd "testing"! I can't download it because i
> > > can only use windows to download it and my kernel is to old to start
> > > the xserver so i need the dvd!
> >
> > I am not sure I understand the part about Kernel & xserver. Jigdo is
> > available for Windows, I don't know anything about it though.
>
> Unfortunately, you cannot create DVD images under Windows due to some big
> file problem... But if the machine you install on has free internet access,
> I'd recommend downloading just the first CD, or even just a netinst CD.

Let me take the liberty of elaborating on this  ...the "big file problem" 
occurs a coupla places in Windows ....

For every M$ file system except NTFS, the size of the file (in the FAT 
table, etc) is described by a 32-bit unsigned integer ... the largest file 
possible is then 2**32 -1 or approximately 4.3 GB ... smaller than the DVD 
images.

(In NTFS, the limit is 2**64-2 ... much larger....)

Much software uses 32-bit integers .... unsigned with a 4 GB limit ...some 
software uses a signed integer  ... therefore with half that capacity or 2 
GB. For the same reason, AVI files are limited to 2 GB .... they use a 
32-bit signed integer for file size....etc.

> By the way, jigdo-lite is run in a shell, so you don't need an X server to
> run it.
>
> Is there anybody out there willing to maintain the Windows port of jigdo?
> It should mostly compile with the latest mingw toolchain, and that might
> also fix the above problem...

Last time I looked .... last week ... I did not see where mingw has fixed 
this ...

(If I am in error here ... please speak up!)

Regards, Gordon