The Ultimate Bluray?
by TheeMahn on Aug.28, 2015, under Gamers, Hosting, Ultimate Edition
I know most people do not own a Bluray Burner, why I do not know. Let’s do a little math, I recently purchased an external Bluray burner, internal I am sure there are cheaper. I also purchased 5 blank dual layer BD-RE’s (blank re-writables) & 100 blank DVD’s at roughly the same cost as the 5 BDRE’s. Lets think about this, just one BDRE holds as much data as the 100 DVD’s, not to mention erasable the Bluray that is. 50GB on one disk, 47GB on 100 DVD’s. A no brainier has occurred in media. Let’s push forward, A DVD burner is roughly the same cost as a Bluray burner, actually even if it is 5 times the cost cheaper. Why is it not in every household?
I spent a few minutes, actually a solid day generating a Bluray of Ultimate Edition (I won’t cover my upload time in this post). 8 operating systems on one disk. Only Bluray on the planet O/S wise I know of, feel free to chime in. Took the best of the best LTS, and a taste of the future and combined it into one disk. A sub 25GB disk (single layer), Yes, it will work with a USB thumbdrive as well as long it is greater then 22GB. I tried to upload it as a single file, many Operating Systems do not accept a file of that size. I will tell you this many won’t be able to play with it even after this post.
Sourceforge, is no exception. I tried to upload it as a single file, won’t happen. Windows in general have restrictions in their filesystems we don’t have to deal with here. I provided information on how to build it in Windows, however I doubt you can the filesysyem of Windows will shut you down. Just another reason I love Linux. Restrictions? What are they? I don’t care if I have a single file that is 20+ GB, you need to start paying attention to your filesystem in Windows. I have yet to see issues in this department and have the ability to choose for a multitude of Linux based filesystems.
Corrected Exobytes in size, no wonder our Govt uses Linux. Let’s verify I know what I am talking about:
ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso 2015-08-12 22.4 GB 0
ultimate-edition-8inone-bluray 2015-08-26 187
The top a single 22GB file never downloaded, the second a folder with the same 22GB of data. If the users on the bottom the 187 downloads has succeed in building the o/s to one file a rare bird, in Windows please report success. I hope you are not naive and think in 14 days no-one has ever downloaded it. I do provide data for that purpose, it is on multiple servers (20 mirrors currently):
MD5SUMS: 6f6c15b723ed70bc6a78671f4fd09bbe
ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.partaa 5b358a219f3307ec387b7ff9c8994f79
ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.partab 4c950aecb71ca33e9b77852e4a7d81ae
ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.partac 2b74b7092862a1a4f3750428573455e2
ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.partad cf2878a7384f4d441bb30fd30091d0d7
ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.partae fe0db59aa0e9b70f0fe1d9555f019850
ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.partaf f010a0cf1047282656981532aecefb0f
ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso
Merging parts Windows
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At the prompt (start > run > cmd) in the same folder with the files issue the following command:
copy /b "ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.parta"+"ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.partb"+"ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.partc"+"ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.partd"+"ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.parte"+"ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso.partf" "ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso"
Merging Linux
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cat *.part* > ultimate-edition-8-in-one-bluray.iso
Burn at your drives slowest speed
Enjoy, TheeMahn
This Bluray in size makes gamers look like a joke. I want to see if you can get it to work. A single file off our servers worked fine. The MD5SUMS match up no deviation should occur.
Unless you have super high speed internet, your new home:
ultimate-edition-8inone-bluray/
I know most sit unaware, we have over 2 million users / downloads. Let me push this forward, there are 6 billion individuals on this planet, approaching 7. When I am done, software will rectify almost everything. I have learned you can make many happy, some content, ultimately you can never make everyone happy. Something I have came to accept.
TheeMahn,
August 30th, 2015 on 4:08 pm
In some ways I agree, and in some ways I disagree. A 25 gig disk is as easy to trash as a 700 meg CD. I have burnt many CDs and DVDs that are no longer readable, as well as have some that I bought that also have gone away. Plastic is plastic, and I would guess that a blu-ray is just as susceptible as a CD. The only difference is that you lose more data.
Same thing with a 20 gig archive or ISO versus smaller archives. One bad pop during the download, and it’s dead in the water. Not much you can do about a program that actually IS 14 gigs in size, as an example, as far as download is concerned – yes you can cut it into smaller chunks which tosses in its own added risks – but if I had a choice of downloading 5 4 gig files that were independent to start with versus a 20 gig “compilation,” I personally would take the 5 individual downloads as yes, I have had download failures as probably have has most.
September 4th, 2015 on 8:41 pm
md5sum is the answer, ensures a good download. Most people will skip that, so yes we are back in the same boat. I would rather re-download a 4GB chunk then a 22GB ISO. A unscratched UN-abused Bluray is good for 1000 years, how they know that I am unsure.
September 1st, 2015 on 9:00 pm
What a great addition to The Ultimate Lineup With upgraded Oldschool versions and a New one i previously Built with TMOSB …ENJOY
September 9th, 2015 on 12:52 am
Sorry you have failed basic math.
4.7g DVD x 100 does not equal 47g
4.7g x TEN = 47g
September 10th, 2015 on 10:07 pm
Excuse me gentlemen, X5 is what (5 BluRays), I may have left that out sorry. I am glad to see a few people can still calculate, I waste time writing formulas in Excel so I don’t have to think nor do people around me at my normal job. I program by night, I don’t get a break I dream in numbers and formulae. I have written formulae in conjunction unseen on the net, I don’t stop there and break out a little VBA. At work people see autonomous reports and do not have to think because of me, know it’s right let’s move on. The HR department basically called me an enabler. Let’s do a few more calculations so I don’t have to formulate or calculate…
Sourceforge Rocks!!!. 2 days ago, I released Ultimate Edition Gamers 4.6 uploaded it to their servers (18 mirrors currently) downloaded ~7,000 times. This is no small download like creators of small apps get to enjoy with their big numbers of downloads. This is an entire Operating System the size of a DVD, so let me break down how much of a beating this has caused. Lets do a little math, 7,000 X 4GB is 28,000 GB of transfer or roughly 28 Terabytes in 2 days.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultimateedition/files/
While that sounds like a ton, we have a 22GB Bluray on there too.
12,057 Total Downloads (This Week)
I am not including our servers traffic and downloads, crazy is it not?
Don’t ever say Sourceforge is slow. Pumping out data at that speed. They did interview me a long time ago:
https://sourceforge.net/…/ultimate-edition-gives-sourcefor…/
Thanks again Sourceforge!!!
2 + 2 = 5, want to know why?
September 9th, 2015 on 7:05 pm
100 DVD’s = 47 GB???
1 = 4,7 GB so 10 = 47 GB
December 25th, 2015 on 10:38 pm
I plan to try this with a flash drive as the ultimate ( ducking) target.
Especially since I don’t (yet) have a bluray
nor a fast machine.. again (yet) this is al old ( vista era) core duo laptop
subbing as desktop ( better than the last machine a 400Mhz XP.
December 26th, 2015 on 7:10 pm
Tries the flash idea, works beautifully. Not having a bluray I can not compare the speed, byt for kde it is fast even on this core duo. 4.7 huh. wondered where it had gone ;}
time to try UE5.0alpha
December 26th, 2015 on 7:14 pm
Oh,time to burn the flash drive ( 64G adata ) was ~75min again remembering I’m using usb2, not 3, and the iso came from an external drive as well, so I had 2 usb pipes from the storage drive, and to the flash drive!