On Thu 11 Oct 2007 14:02:25 NZDT +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > So we are left with a situation where it is actually not that easy to get > a DVD image off their machine:
> 2. You can't use the commonly available flash drives as they are default > formatted with fat which probably won't take a file >2GB. Let's have a closer look at that. Flash gimmicks are formatted with FAT or VFAT. There are a number of different FAT formats, each having their own maximum size. On an 8GB stick you can assume there is a FAT version which holds at least 8GB (I have yet to see a stick which has more than one partition; some don't even have a partition table). A quick play with truncate and the loop device shows that FAT32 is needed for an 8GB filesystem. A cp shows that the maximum file size is 4GB. The bottom line is that portable storage gimmicks may well hold dozens if gigabytes but are useless to store a single DVD image file. Options: 1) Find a file splitting program which runs on the other OS. Tell people how to put it back together at home (Linux or other OS). Burn disk image. Hmm, I don't see this option being the high-flier. 2) Tell people to use a useful portable storage device. Geeks would cope, but then they don't need an ISO library (they already have them at home). 3) Outfit the ISO library with a DVD burner. I'll chip in with half the cost. 4) ??? ideas ??? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
