DVD, XP and a 2 GB limit

Kenny Speer kenny.speer at comcast.net
Mon May 3 01:05:39 UTC 2004


Why in the world would you force yourself to use XP?  And, XP will not 
display a file larger than 2GB in Explorer.  It's a known issue 
therefore FTP fails.  Try using CIFS/SMB if you absolutely must use that 
inferior OS.

TGS wrote:
> Might be OT, but I am attempting to go that DVD route. Only problem is that
> I need to get the DVD image to XP in order to burn the DVD. I attempt to ftp
> the image over, but it fails at 2GB. The drive on the XP side is NTFS, so I
> thought that it could handle the size. I have tried many FTP tools on the XP
> side to no avail. Should I be able to do this, or do I need to hook up the
> DVD drive to my Linux box.
> 
> 





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