Hi, some file systems are not able to handle files bigger than size X. Fat32 for example only handles 4GB. Win often uses Fat32. Maybe this is your problem.
Kons Renat Golubchyk 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 >> (XP) zip file handling. >> >> I know I could do this by using RAR - or some other untility - >> instead, but that would require me to install additional software on >> the PC, which I'd rather not do. Besides, I'm surprised to find that >> app-arch/zip - nor any other utility I can immediately find in >> Portage - doesn't seem to handle this. >> > > I don't know whether zip can do this, but you could use "split" to > split the .iso into smaller pieces and then combine them on your > Windows box with "copy" [1]. > > > Cheers, > Renat > > [1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490886.aspx > > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
