Bug 902487 – livegui-amd64-20230312T164650Z.iso: File is too big (image.squashfs)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Gentookh 2023-03-20 23:35:33 UTC]

When following https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB#Automatic_drive-wide_installation_script

For a https://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/root/all/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20230312T164650Z/livegui-amd64-20230312T164650Z.iso

I get error: File is too big
On step: Copying files...

I tried using `mkfs.vfat -F 32`, but it didn't help as file is still >4G.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Gentookh 2023-03-21 11:20:59 UTC]

sys-boot/unetbootin pretends that it successfully copied all the necessary data to the USB-stick, but during the actual boot it fails nevertheless.

[Comment 2 Gentookh 2023-03-21 11:49:41 UTC]

`dd` flashing works fine:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB#Using_dd_to_write_the_ISO_image_to_a_USB_drive

[Comment 3 Ben Kohler 2023-03-21 12:40:27 UTC]

We got some workarounds for >4G files in Rufus (another tool similar to unetbootin), for the unpack part and then to use NTFS for the drive root... but it ended up being more trouble than (we believe) it is worth.

We probably just need to work to get the squashfs size under control again.

[Comment 4 Ben Kohler 2023-03-27 12:28:04 UTC]

This should be fixed in the newly minted livegui-amd64-20230326T170209Z.iso