Bug#1114748: debian-live: ISO images are larger than 2GiB

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

did you mean "4 GiB" instead of "2 GiB" ?

There are ISOs larger than 2 GiB already in
  https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/9.0.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/
The internet says that FAT 32 has a file size limit of 4 GiB - 1.


> E.g. gnome = 4574545920 bytes

~ 4362.6 MiB.
That's near to the capacity of a recordable DVD of 4482.625 MiB.

  https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/
says
  "you will typically need to write it to media, either writeable DVD
   or a USB stick."
This would soon have to be changed to
  "either a double-layer DVD+R, or a writable Blu-ray disc,
   or a USB stick."

Double layer DVD+R are traditionally the first media type which an
aging drive cannot burn successfully. So actually only BD-R and BD-RE
remain as reliably writable optical media for images with more than
4,700,372,992 bytes.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas