Linus Torvalds is the anti-Christ
Today I planned to reinstall both Mandriva and XP, complete with applications, with OS and apps on different drives. Instead all I managed to get done was burn the iso to a disk.
I downloaded Mandriva 2007 spring edition from the Mandriva club: a 4.3GB file. Today I tried to burn it to a DVD using K3B.
Nope.
Can’t burn files over 4GB. What?!? The DVD-RW has room for 4.7GB don’t give me this. After some gooling, I find out it’s a K3B limitation. Great. I go to advanced settings, select “allow overburn” and try again.
No good.
So I get to the K3B home page. The newest version 1.0 (!) eliminates “that stupid 4GB limitation bug. If it’s that stupid, why didn’t they fix it sooner? I can get the newest K3B, but only if I download the source and compile myself.
Yeah right.
I’ve learned not to go to bed angry, so I’ll sign off here and continue tomorrow. 
July 16th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
This kind of BS is why I switched back to XP from Ubuntu. On the surface, everything with Linux was easier and more accessible (thanks to the package manager, etc…) - then I realized everything has a screwy limitation (like the 4gb deal). I know you’ve had Mandriva going for a long time, so you’re obviously going to stick with it. I really wanted to love Ubuntu, but soon enough I had vmware installed and was running XP through it. Then I quit the charade and just reinstalled XP.