On Friday 04 July 2008, Dale wrote: > Sebastian Günther wrote: > > * Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 05:25]: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> After getting the mailing list working I did some techy > >> shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large > >> files. I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my data. K3b > >> gives me a error saying the file is to large. I did some > >> googling and searched around on the forums, even posted on one > >> thread, but I can not figure out how to get this thing to burn. > >> Will it just not burn large files or what? > > > > How big is the tarball? > > # ls -lh <tarball> > > > > Check if you have set the Medium size correctly in K3b. Maybe you > > try to burn it on a CD... > > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery list cdr > >> * installed packages > >> [I--] [ ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.2 (0) > >> [I--] [ ] app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1.6 (0) > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > > > > To be faster than Jörg: > > > > He will advise you to unmerge cdrkit and merge cdrtools, but > > first please look for the size of the tarball and the options set > > in K3b > > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -vp k3b > > > > HTH > > Sebastian > > I did set it to write to the DVD. The tarball is about 4Gbs or so. > It should fit on the DVD with no problems.
4GB is about the limit. Please give the exact size. Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
