Opensuse 11.2 iso "too big" to burn to DVD or copy

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Greetings,

Before I get started, I just want to preface the fact that I am relatively new to Linux.

I downloaded the 64bit OpenSuse 11.2 DVD iso last night (4.3 gb) and attempted to burn the image to a DVD-rom with brasero in Ubuntu 9.10. I tried twice with two different DVDs and both times the disc burned to 4.0gb before returning with an error saying the file is too big.

The same thing happens if I try to copy the .iso file to my 300gb external - even though I have more than 50gb free.

Has anyone else experienced similar issues? Does this mean that I have to redownload the image?

Thanks! – Slaol

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I burned the openSUSE-11.2 64-bit DVD with no such problems.

From where did you download the DVD ?

Prior to burning, did you run an md5sum check on the iso file, and compare that to the md5sum value on the Novell/SuSE-GmbH site? Are they the same? (they should be).

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I downloaded it via the torrent file on the softwnare.opensuse.org website.

Unfortunately, I did not run such a check on the iso file - to be honest, I do not even know how to do this:shame:

Is there a link on this site that details the process?

Thank you very much!

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Google for ‘torrent verify’ (without quotes) and you should get some good
hits. Add in the name of your torrent software (vuze/azureus, ktorrent,
etc.) for results specific to your software.

Good luck.

slaol121 wrote:
> oldcpu;2075271 Wrote:
>> I burned the openSUSE-11.2 64-bit DVD with no such problems.
>>
>> From where did you download the DVD ?
>>
>> Prior to burning, did you run an md5sum check on the iso file, and
>> compare that to the md5sum value on the Novell/SuSE-GmbH site? Are they
>> the same? (they should be).
>
> I downloaded it via the torrent file on the softwnare.opensuse.org
> website.
>
> Unfortunately, I did not run such a check on the iso file - to be
> honest, I do not even know how to do this:shame:
>
> Is there a link on this site that details the process?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
>
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Hi,

4G is the max size of a FAT32 file. You said you are new to Linux, is your gear still running on Win format?

The iso file you downloaded is approx.4.2G if I remember correctly.

I hope that helps…

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Very glad you asked !! :slight_smile:

Please read our two stickie for new users:

and after that, a couple more items to read:

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I forgot to mention, you can find out what the md5sum value is supposed to be by looking at this page:
Software.openSUSE.org

Please pay attention to the comment above about the limitations of FAT16/32. If you downloaded the iso to a FAT16/32, it will for certain no longer be any good.

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Thanks to everyone for all the links and information :slight_smile:

I will spend time reading the information and then post what I’ve learned.

(ADD: I’m impressed with the speed of getting a reply on these boards - much quicker than with the Ubuntu forums!)

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From the openSUSE web site, the md5sum for the 64-bit openSUSE-11.2 DVD “iso” file is:

6a09295e34dc030319d040f67f4742c6  openSUSE-11.2-DVD-x86_64.iso

when you check the md5sum of your downloaded iso file, it should be the same.

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I ran the following in my terminal:

user@user-laptop:~/Downloads$ md5sum openSUSE-11.2-DVD-x86_64.iso

And this was the response I got:

6a09295e34dc030319d040f67f4742c6 openSUSE-11.2-DVD-x86_64.iso

So I guess this is not the issue :\

It might be the formatting issue with my hard disk mentioned earlier, though I am not sure. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1525 that came pre-installed with Windows Vista. I removed Vista almost two years ago and have been using various distros of Linux since. Currently, I am running Ubuntu 9.10 (full system install from the live cd). I’m not really sure how my drive is formatted, as I simply chose the default options when I ran the install.

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If you burned from Ubuntu, then that should burn ok, unless there is a bug with your burning program in Ubuntu.

Please do NOT burn to an RW. Burn to an (empty :slight_smile: ) high quality media ( +R or -R ). And burn at the slowest speed your burner will allow.

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DVD-RW’s have worked well for me; as do the Net Install on CD-RW’s. It’s a source of annoyance for me to use a CD-R for a one off process, just because somone wanted to cram a few more applications, that most CD users will never use onto them.
Use torrent, or verify your download with md5sum (k3b displays it when you burn ISO) and then use the verify option on burner & burn at a conservative speed unless you know your burner/disk combo is sound on auto. It has eliminated all the media issues for me.

To see how your disk is “formatted”, run the mount command which lists the currently mounted filesystems. You can relate those to partitions using “fdisk -l”.

If you have the good ISO and another computer, you could export the ISO with NFS, and boot your computer with the NetInstall CD image, which is small.

I am not sure if installing from the ISO directly from the disk works at the moment within the GUI. It can probably be got to work by an expert using command line.

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IMHO you have been lucky. I had over 1/2 dozen failures in different RW’s before I finally got smart.

If you were talking a few euros / cd I would agree. But we are talking cents!

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Are you sure you ae burning an ISO and not as a file?

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I am using the “Burn Image: Burn and existing CD/DVD image to a disk” feature in Brasero.

I just now upgraded the kernel to Linux 2.6.31-15 to see if this would help, and nothing. I still can’t burn past 4gb - neither can I copy past 4gb to any external media.

I’m thinking that it must be Brasero’s compatibility with Ubuntu 9.10 - since I was able to burn DVD images larger than 4gb under Jaunty.

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Can you please show us the output of fdisk -l?

I’m wondering if your install is one of those Ubuntu installs within a Windows filesystem and therefore subject to its limitations on file size.

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Could you please post the result of this command so we can be sure what type of file system you’re using?

df -T
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Here is the output:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 29164 234259798+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 29165 30401 9936202+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29165 30401 9936171 82 Linux swap / Solaris

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Here is the output:

Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ext4 230582768 31839528 187030252 15% /
udev tmpfs 2024396 308 2024088 1% /dev
none tmpfs 2024396 1416 2022980 1% /dev/shm
none tmpfs 2024396 284 2024112 1% /var/run
none tmpfs 2024396 0 2024396 0% /var/lock
none tmpfs 2024396 0 2024396 0% /lib/init/rw

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Ok, no Windows filesystem that I can see.

Have you tried another burning program? Or even the command line?

growisofs -speed=1 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=opensuse.iso