I'm talking with Robert at the moment and this is the part of the message he sent me :
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With OSS DVD here i have even created iso's of
12 Gb, at least well beyond 4.7Gb.
[wikiwork:root]

/data)# mkisofs -version
mkisofs 2.01.01a05 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
[wikiwork:root]

/data)# rpm -q -i mkisofs
Name : mkisofs Relocations: /usr
Version : 2.01.01 Vendor: (none)
Release : 5mdk_ossdvd Build Date: Tue 27 Jun 2006 10:41:30 PM CEST
Install Date: Tue 27 Jun 2006 10:41:58 PM CEST Build Host: wikiwork.stokkie.net
Group : Archiving/Cd burning Source RPM: cdrecord-2.01.01a05-5mdk_ossdvd.src.rpm
Size : 806527 License: GPL
Signature : (none)
URL :
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/.../cdrecord.html
Summary : Creates an image of an ISO9660 filesystem.
Description :
This is the mkisofs package. It is used to create ISO 9660
file system images for creating CD-ROMs. Now includes support
for making bootable "El Torito" CD-ROMs.
[wikiwork:root]

/data)#
[wikiwork:root]

/data)# cat make-iso.sh
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/mkisofs -o /data/iso-test.iso \
-hide-joliet-trans-tbl -hide-rr-moved -allow-leading-dots \
-l -r -V "wikiwork mdv20060 07-jul-2006" \
-publisher "STOCK-2006070701" \
-p "stock" -A "wikiwork mdv20060 07-jul-2006" \
"/data/iso"
echo " Done!"
exit 0
[wikiwork:root]

/data)# ./make-iso.sh
Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
Using STEWART_SWERDLOW_HISTORY000.AVI;1 for /data/iso/swerdlow/Stewart-Swerdlow-History-of-Mind-Control-1of2.avi (Stewart-Swerdlow-History-of-Mind-Control-2of2.avi)
0.12% done, estimate finish Fri Jul 7 18:22:11 2006
0.24% done, estimate finish Fri Jul 7 18:22:11 2006
0.37% done, estimate finish Fri Jul 7 18:26:43 2006
0.49% done, estimate finish Fri Jul 7 18:25:35 2006
0.61% done, estimate finish Fri Jul 7 18:24:54 2006
...
...
...
99.55% done, estimate finish Fri Jul 7 18:28:52 2006
99.67% done, estimate finish Fri Jul 7 18:28:53 2006
99.80% done, estimate finish Fri Jul 7 18:28:52 2006
99.92% done, estimate finish Fri Jul 7 18:28:52 2006
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 3912
Total directory bytes: 16384
Path table size(bytes): 152
Max brk space used 21000
4093333 extents written (7994 MB)
Done!
[wikiwork:root]

/data)#
[wikiwork:root]

/data)# ll
total 8194684
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 7 18:20 iso/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8383145984 Jul 7 18:28 iso-test.iso
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 275 Jul 7 18:22 make-iso.sh*
The system is mandriva 2006.0 i586 on a AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
with 1024 Gb RAM and a Seagate 300Gb UDMA 133 disk (ST3300622A)
with 16Mb cache on disk.
Download is at
http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/RPMS/
The project page is at
http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd.html and is
registerd at freshmeat since Sun, Oct 5th 2003 at
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ossdvd/
Cheers,
Robert
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