looking for a program

[ghosstt]

that can burn me pictures to a DVD. It's a 20 gig folder, and I'm looking for a program that will just tell me to insert a new DVD for the next 4.7 gigs of pictures. That way, I don't have to seperate all the pictures to fit.

heres the catch.. I'm running linux. Running a live CD, cause the pictures are on a f'ed up HD, and I need to send the pictures to my cousin.. ideas?

[gamemasterAS]

Does the live CD your using copy to the RAM? If not do you have multiple disk drives in the PC or something?

[ghosstt]

I was booting off of a USB drive. I ended up just transferring them all over samba to my main PC. At least now I got to wipe the drive and do a fresh install. Any suggestions on how to give someone 20 gigs of pictures, aside from DVD?

[bassmasta]

Compress them, in a .zip file, at least to save space.

[timmeh87]

Pictures are already pretty compressed. Picture, video, and music compress very poorly.

If you just want to archive them, you can use a ZIP file to split it into 4 pieces, by changing the settings to span archives with a max size of 4.7gb.

of course you might find you hit a 4gb filesize limit depending on your OS. Then you'd just have to split it into maybe 20 archives and put a "few" onto each DVD.

Also, 500gb portable hard drives are super cheap these days. Its always decent to have one around for moments like this.