[OSGeoLive] Disk (ISO) size limitations

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

Thanks for the info looks promising.
What kind of file system did you use for your test?

Happy new year,
Angelos

On 12/28/20 7:49 PM, edgar.soldin at web.de wrote:
> hey All, Angelos,
>
> incidentally i just came across Ventoy[1] via the Qemu Advent Calendar[2], a usb stick boot manager that boots ISOs from an otherwise usable data partition. it supports exFat, NTFS (to name cross platform candidates) among others so there is actually no 4GB file size limit.
> just booted osgeolive-14.0alpha3-amd64.iso with Ventoy 1.0.31.
>
> where there is a will, there is fun - to be had.. ede
>
> [1] https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html
> [2] https://qemu-advent-calendar.org/
>
> On 17.12.2020 12:30, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The limitation is not actually the iso format but the squashfs filesystem for the live system.
>> When that goes over 4GB, the file cannot be stored in the filesystem the usb/iso uses.
>>
>> More details here:
>> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1123257&sid=5c42d363988a2c6980ae256697991aa1#p1123257
>>
>> Best,
>> Angelos
>>
>> On 12/17/20 12:28 PM, Gandalf the Gray wrote:
>>> Hi Angelos
>>>
>>> Just a quick question about the ISO size limit that has been bugging me
>>> last night.
>>>
>>> How does projects like Scientific Linux or RHEL manage to get ISOs of more
>>> than 4GB?
>>>
>>> I think that the aim of the OSGeoLive project is to fit the ISO on a DVD,
>>> am I correct?
>>>
>>> If I may be presumptuous, why doesn't the OSGeoLive project start moving
>>> away from a DVD ISO, to an iso that can run only from USB, or is this
>>> limitation of 4GB a Ubuntu issue?
>>>
>>> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>>>
>>> Pieter
>>>
>>>
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