Re: SOLVED Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:17:28 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> On 29/04/2012, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know about the burning program features but I bet you can use
>> "split" command (to make chunks of data that fit in one DVD) and "cat"
>> (if you want to restore the full image afterwards) for the task.
>>
> Split was indeed the answer, using it as ....... split -b 4000m
> /home/boztu/irishceltic.iso ...... and it splits the 18.9 gb file into
> 3.9 gb files which just need to be renamed as xaa.iso, or
> xab.iso/xac.iso, and then the image is burnt using k3b.
>
> Thanks to all
You're welcome.
For archiving purposes (like yours) that's the fastest and easiest way to
put big ISO files into DVDs. I maybe also add to the archive a md5sum
file to check the ISO integrity after restoring ;-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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