[X4U] Re: Copying a 5.3 gig DVD image?

[Jon Marett]

On Feb 28, 2006, at 8:30 AM, David Checkman wrote:

> If I can piggyback on Robert Nicholson's initial request for  
> information about how to handle files too large to fit on a single  
> DVD ...
>
> (Please, I can do without someone's generic response: "Why would  
> you want to burn such a DVD when you could ... (complete the  
> sentence yourself)."
>
> To make my own questions more concrete: does anyone know of  
> software (I have OSX 3.9) that does either/both of these jobs:  
> compresses/splits 9 GBs of files on my HD to DVD size chunks  
> preliminary to burning to DVDs?
>
> And, does anyone know of software that will make such DVDs  
> *bootable* (wait! ... don't jump to CCC, etc. so fast) so that the  
> DVDs I've just burned (see the paragraph above) somehow get re- 
> assembled into a single file on my desktop that I will then be able  
> to re-install if/when disaster strikes?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dave

I have used stuffit for compressing and segmenting large archive  
files into DVD or CD sized pieces. When you try to mount one of the  
segments, it just asks for the location of the remaining segments.

<http://www.stuffit.com/mac/standard/>

jon


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