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Convert DVD to CD? (large .cab file)
I just received an update for my GPS maps. The original maps were
supplied on several CDs, but the update is a single DVD. The license allows me to install the maps on as many computers as I wish since they can only be downloaded to my registered GPS unit - but one of the computers I wish to use with my GPS is a couple of hundred miles away and it does not have a DVD drive - so I'd like to convert the DVD to several burned CDs for installation on the remote computer. One of the files on the DVD is a large .cab file that will not fit on a CD. I could extract it and rebuild it into spanned .cab files, but I'm not sure if the installation program would understand spanned .cab files. Is there a documented way to do this, or do I have to experiment to see how the installer reacts? TIA Sunny |
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Convert DVD to CD? (large .cab file)
Sunny wrote: I just received an update for my GPS maps. The original maps were supplied on several CDs, but the update is a single DVD. The license allows me to install the maps on as many computers as I wish since they can only be downloaded to my registered GPS unit - but one of the computers I wish to use with my GPS is a couple of hundred miles away and it does not have a DVD drive - so I'd like to convert the DVD to several burned CDs for installation on the remote computer. One of the files on the DVD is a large .cab file that will not fit on a CD. I could extract it and rebuild it into spanned .cab files, but I'm not sure if the installation program would understand spanned .cab files. Is there a documented way to do this, or do I have to experiment to see how the installer reacts? TIA Sunny Nada, so I'll post my update... I've been using Roxio v6 for some time, but until today wasn't aware it supported burning large projects to multiple CDs, splitting files if required, even adds a re-assembly executable to each disk - so I tried it. The maps fit on 2 CDs with 46MB free according to Roxio 6, and I burned them to two Verbatim discs off a 100-disc spindle I've been using for some time with excellent results. The discs burned without error, but when I try to restore the retrieval program reports an error on the large .cab file and fails to read it - tried on several systems including the drive that burned the discs, same result. Does Roxio 6 file splitting/reassembly actually work? |
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Convert DVD to CD? (large .cab file)
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how HUGE are your BALLS, Adrian Miller? ------------------------------------------- Only a trashy company like Roxio or Adaptec let loosed in Usenet this utter trash ------------------------------------------- Deirdre Straughan (Roxio) is a LIAR ----------------------------------- Mike Richter is a LIAR ---------------------- Sunny wrote: Sunny wrote: I just received an update for my GPS maps. The original maps were supplied on several CDs, but the update is a single DVD. The license allows me to install the maps on as many computers as I wish since they can only be downloaded to my registered GPS unit - but one of the computers I wish to use with my GPS is a couple of hundred miles away and it does not have a DVD drive - so I'd like to convert the DVD to several burned CDs for installation on the remote computer. One of the files on the DVD is a large .cab file that will not fit on a CD. I could extract it and rebuild it into spanned .cab files, but I'm not sure if the installation program would understand spanned .cab files. Is there a documented way to do this, or do I have to experiment to see how the installer reacts? Nada, so I'll post my update... I've been using Roxio v6 for some time, but until today wasn't aware it supported burning large projects to multiple CDs, splitting files if required, even adds a re-assembly executable to each disk - so I tried it. The maps fit on 2 CDs with 46MB free according to Roxio 6, and I burned them to two Verbatim discs off a 100-disc spindle I've been using for some time with excellent results. The discs burned without error, but when I try to restore the retrieval program reports an error on the large .cab file and fails to read it - tried on several systems including the drive that burned the discs, same result. Does Roxio 6 file splitting/reassembly actually work? Perhaps get a clue from this? ====================================== From: "Terry Vacha" Date: 5/23/04 Subject: spanning does not burn 1st CD I'm using Creator Classic which is part of the Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 package. When I back up files with Roxio software, basic version, it often indicates that the project will require 3 or 4 CDs. When I start the burn to CD, after the first CD is burned, a notice comes up on the screen saying that the second CD has been burned correctly. After two CDs are burned, the 3 CD project is considered finished by Roxio. Sure enough, it never burned the first CD. I've done this several times and several different ways including reinstalling Roxio software. I have also downloaded all of the upgrades allowable with my "basic" version. What is going on here?? Do I have some "preference" incorrectly set? ====================================== |
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Convert DVD to CD? (large .cab file)
Sunny wrote:
Sunny wrote: I just received an update for my GPS maps. The original maps were supplied on several CDs, but the update is a single DVD. The license allows me to install the maps on as many computers as I wish since they can only be downloaded to my registered GPS unit - but one of the computers I wish to use with my GPS is a couple of hundred miles away and it does not have a DVD drive - so I'd like to convert the DVD to several burned CDs for installation on the remote computer. One of the files on the DVD is a large .cab file that will not fit on a CD. I could extract it and rebuild it into spanned .cab files, but I'm not sure if the installation program would understand spanned .cab files. Is there a documented way to do this, or do I have to experiment to see how the installer reacts? TIA Sunny Nada, so I'll post my update... I've been using Roxio v6 for some time, but until today wasn't aware it supported burning large projects to multiple CDs, splitting files if required, even adds a re-assembly executable to each disk - so I tried it. The maps fit on 2 CDs with 46MB free according to Roxio 6, and I burned them to two Verbatim discs off a 100-disc spindle I've been using for some time with excellent results. The discs burned without error, but when I try to restore the retrieval program reports an error on the large .cab file and fails to read it - tried on several systems including the drive that burned the discs, same result. Does Roxio 6 file splitting/reassembly actually work? I think what may be best for you is to copy the file to your hard drive and use something like Winzip to zip the file and burn it to multiple CDs. I believe the latest version will allow you to do this. Cost for this is minimal at $29.95, supposedly for any future releases. |
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Convert DVD to CD? (large .cab file)
Marlin Singer wrote:
Sunny wrote: clipped I think what may be best for you is to copy the file to your hard drive and use something like Winzip to zip the file and burn it to multiple CDs. I believe the latest version will allow you to do this. Cost for this is minimal at $29.95, supposedly for any future releases. Forgot to answer your original. I'm not sure if that old a version allows the spanning. I just created a 2gb zip file with PowerArchiver, and it allows you to split the files into whatever media you are trying to write to. In this case it created 3 650mb files + another with the remainder. You would need to install either the WinZip or Powerarchiver to both machines, or when you create your zip, you create a self extracting EXE file that will extract all your files automatically. WinZip - www.winzip.com PowerArchiver - www.powerarchiver.com You can use these on a trial basis, but I am not sure you get full functionality with the trial. |
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Convert DVD to CD? (large .cab file)
This little freeware thing:
http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/#win32 works well. I've done exactly what you're attempting with it several times. Sunny wrote: Sunny wrote: I just received an update for my GPS maps. The original maps were supplied on several CDs, but the update is a single DVD. The license allows me to install the maps on as many computers as I wish since they can only be downloaded to my registered GPS unit - but one of the computers I wish to use with my GPS is a couple of hundred miles away and it does not have a DVD drive - so I'd like to convert the DVD to several burned CDs for installation on the remote computer. One of the files on the DVD is a large .cab file that will not fit on a CD. I could extract it and rebuild it into spanned .cab files, but I'm not sure if the installation program would understand spanned .cab files. Is there a documented way to do this, or do I have to experiment to see how the installer reacts? TIA Sunny Nada, so I'll post my update... I've been using Roxio v6 for some time, but until today wasn't aware it supported burning large projects to multiple CDs, splitting files if required, even adds a re-assembly executable to each disk - so I tried it. The maps fit on 2 CDs with 46MB free according to Roxio 6, and I burned them to two Verbatim discs off a 100-disc spindle I've been using for some time with excellent results. The discs burned without error, but when I try to restore the retrieval program reports an error on the large .cab file and fails to read it - tried on several systems including the drive that burned the discs, same result. Does Roxio 6 file splitting/reassembly actually work? |
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Convert DVD to CD? (large .cab file)
smh wrote: Sunny wrote: Sunny wrote: I just received an update for my GPS maps. The original maps were supplied on several CDs, but the update is a single DVD. The license allows me to install the maps on as many computers as I wish since they can only be downloaded to my registered GPS unit - but one of the computers I wish to use with my GPS is a couple of hundred miles away and it does not have a DVD drive - so I'd like to convert the DVD to several burned CDs for installation on the remote computer. One of the files on the DVD is a large .cab file that will not fit on a CD. I could extract it and rebuild it into spanned .cab files, but I'm not sure if the installation program would understand spanned .cab files. Is there a documented way to do this, or do I have to experiment to see how the installer reacts? Nada, so I'll post my update... I've been using Roxio v6 for some time, but until today wasn't aware it supported burning large projects to multiple CDs, splitting files if required, even adds a re-assembly executable to each disk - so I tried it. The maps fit on 2 CDs with 46MB free according to Roxio 6, and I burned them to two Verbatim discs off a 100-disc spindle I've been using for some time with excellent results. The discs burned without error, but when I try to restore the retrieval program reports an error on the large .cab file and fails to read it - tried on several systems including the drive that burned the discs, same result. Does Roxio 6 file splitting/reassembly actually work? Perhaps get a clue from this? ====================================== From: "Terry Vacha" Date: 5/23/04 Subject: spanning does not burn 1st CD I'm using Creator Classic which is part of the Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 package. When I back up files with Roxio software, basic version, it often indicates that the project will require 3 or 4 CDs. When I start the burn to CD, after the first CD is burned, a notice comes up on the screen saying that the second CD has been burned correctly. After two CDs are burned, the 3 CD project is considered finished by Roxio. Sure enough, it never burned the first CD. I've done this several times and several different ways including reinstalling Roxio software. I have also downloaded all of the upgrades allowable with my "basic" version. What is going on here?? Do I have some "preference" incorrectly set? ====================================== Nope, no clues there. It burned both CDs. I copied both CDs to hard disc and reassembled the large .cab file using copy /b. The resulting file was identical to the original, and the maps install just fine from it. Conclusion: Roxio 6.1.1.48 file splitting works, but reassembly is broken and has to be done manually. Sunny |
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Convert DVD to CD? (large .cab file)
....or the installer won't work with cab's spanning multiple disks:
perhaps indicated in advance via the way it's newly marketed as one disc, so the included installer didn't need programming to accommodate that like the original multi-disk set... There is no indication yet that Roxio is broken in this case. Tim K "Sunny" wrote in message ... Does Roxio 6 file splitting/reassembly actually work? Perhaps get a clue from this? ====================================== From: "Terry Vacha" Date: 5/23/04 Subject: spanning does not burn 1st CD I'm using Creator Classic which is part of the Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 package. When I back up files with Roxio software, basic version, it often indicates that the project will require 3 or 4 CDs. When I start the burn to CD, after the first CD is burned, a notice comes up on the screen saying that the second CD has been burned correctly. After two CDs are burned, the 3 CD project is considered finished by Roxio. Sure enough, it never burned the first CD. I've done this several times and several different ways including reinstalling Roxio software. I have also downloaded all of the upgrades allowable with my "basic" version. What is going on here?? Do I have some "preference" incorrectly set? ====================================== Nope, no clues there. It burned both CDs. I copied both CDs to hard disc and reassembled the large .cab file using copy /b. The resulting file was identical to the original, and the maps install just fine from it. Conclusion: Roxio 6.1.1.48 file splitting works, but reassembly is broken and has to be done manually. Sunny |
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Convert DVD to CD? (large .cab file)
Timothy Kroesen wrote: ...or the installer won't work with cab's spanning multiple disks: perhaps indicated in advance via the way it's newly marketed as one disc, so the included installer didn't need programming to accommodate that like the original multi-disk set... There is no indication yet that Roxio is broken in this case. As I said in a previous post (which you snipped): The discs burned without error, but when I try to restore the retrieval program reports an error on the large .cab file and fails to read it - tried on several systems including the drive that burned the discs, same result. Note I said "the retrieval program reports an error". I did not say "the installer reports an error" In other words, Roxio's retrieval program fails to re-assemble the spanned cab file, but the file is usable when re-assembled by hand - i.e. Roxio's retrieval program is broken. Sunny Tim K "Sunny" wrote in message ... Does Roxio 6 file splitting/reassembly actually work? Perhaps get a clue from this? ====================================== From: "Terry Vacha" Date: 5/23/04 Subject: spanning does not burn 1st CD I'm using Creator Classic which is part of the Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 package. When I back up files with Roxio software, basic version, it often indicates that the project will require 3 or 4 CDs. When I start the burn to CD, after the first CD is burned, a notice comes up on the screen saying that the second CD has been burned correctly. After two CDs are burned, the 3 CD project is considered finished by Roxio. Sure enough, it never burned the first CD. I've done this several times and several different ways including reinstalling Roxio software. I have also downloaded all of the upgrades allowable with my "basic" version. What is going on here?? Do I have some "preference" incorrectly set? ====================================== Nope, no clues there. It burned both CDs. I copied both CDs to hard disc and reassembled the large .cab file using copy /b. The resulting file was identical to the original, and the maps install just fine from it. Conclusion: Roxio 6.1.1.48 file splitting works, but reassembly is broken and has to be done manually. Sunny |
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