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How to burn CD in DOS? 2 GB limit ? DVD crap ... (Users)

posted by DOS386, 19.12.2007, 21:59

Tom wrote:

> which hardly exist.

True, but can change.

> IMHO FAT32+ is a specification of something that will never be implemented)
It should be. Not in the next kernel/distro (there are enough bugs pending), but after :-)

> and COPY/XCOPY/Volkow Commander will copy only filesize % 4Gb
> etc., show wrong directory info, etc. pp
I see no problem. You probably won't have 1000's of such files - just care about those 1...3 you might have.

> FAT32+ is a nice hack, and not difficult to implement.
A nice innovation from independent DOS developers, no hack at all :-)

> OTOH, you can't CHKDSK any longer (and judging by experience not
> running CHKDSK onve in a while is no particular clever idea),
> unless CHKDSK is updated.
Temporarily remove those files, CHKDSK should get updated one day.

> You can't use XCOPY and friends.
You probably won't have > 2 GiB files inside a huge DIR structure :-)

> Just booting Linux/Windows/... on this maschine might trigger a
> CHKDSK, and your big Files are gone. Users won't love that

NO. Prohibit them accessing this partition. Or store them on external HD. ;-)

> IMO the only user of files > 4Gb are DVD rippers, burners, ...

Video editing ;-)

> anyway, and its better (saver) if they implement a .ISO, .IS1, .IS2 scheme
It's also good ... but not instead of FAT32+.

Udo wrote:

> Well, I would be satisfied if I would ever read on the box of
> some software: "Minimum system requirements: MS-DOS 6 or higher,
> Enhanced DR-DOS or FreeDOS recommended".
:-) I appreciate Udo's work on FAT32+ implementation (less banning me from his forum, of course)

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