[SunHELP] HOWTO compress and save large SunPCI-diskimage

[Paolo Di Francesco]

> It seems to be a file-size-problem, but I'm wondering about the short time
> of zip-operating, generating a really small and wrong zip-file of the
> 21GB-diskimage without any error.
> 
> What's the best way to generate a compressed-store-file of such big
> diskimages ?
> 
Just to better understand: you are compressing the image file, which is 
just 1 (huge) file. So why don't you use gzip or bzip or other gnu 
utilities directly on that file?

Anyway I know that this one is completely unrelated, but I had problems 
in the past with the tar utility under windows: I compressed huge 
archives under solaris7 (I guess with tar but maybe it was zip!) and 
uncompressing them under windows with winzip gave me a lot of problems 
(just few files exctracted). Maybe there is a limit in the file size, 
but this is MY assumption, and I feel it like a silly one....

Can you try to use other compression utilities and let us know?



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