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cannot copy files larger than 40 MB from CD

DISCUSSION J Troy Piper 1 participant 1 message Aug 2, 2001

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Quoted 11 lines · On 2001.08.02 10:14 Alan Cox wrote:
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Tried vfat, ext2 and reiserfs.

BTW, kernel is compiled with gcc-2.96-85, glibc-2.2.2-10 (RH 7.1) if

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that matters.

Have you tried compiling your kernel using kgcc?

gcc-2.96.* is known to compile code incorrectly AFAIK, and shouldn't be used for compiling kernels. (kgcc is egcs-1.1.2, I think.)

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[x86 hat on]

egcs-1.1.2 aka kgcc wont build 2.4.7 it seems. gcc 2.96 >= 2.96.75 or so is
just fine, gcc 2.95-2/3 is fine, gcc 3.0 seems to be doing the right thing
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Sounds to me like someone needs to check their ulimit.
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