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Files with filename longer than 64 Characters are broken

Bug #660402 reported by CorNuCoPia on 2010-10-14

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #373089: Lost symlinks and long file names when creating USB from Ubuntu ISO. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	debian-installer (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: debian-installer

I found the next problem in the alternate CD ISO for :
Kubuntu Maverick i386
Kubuntu Lucid i386
Ubuntu Maverick i386
And perhaps there are even more ....

The file i have checked (and also gave me an error during install) was :
\pool\main\x\xserver-xorg-video-nouveau\xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_0.0.16+git20100805+b96170a-0ubuntu1_i
which should have the name :
\pool\main\x\xserver-xorg-video-nouveau\xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_0.0.16+git20100805+b96170a-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

Don't know if it is important to know, but i use windows XP and Poweriso to extract the ISO...

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CorNuCoPia (aalte-zuidema) on 2010-10-14

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tcz (tony-cigna) wrote on 2011-04-06:

I had the same problem with ubuntu-10.04.2-alternate-amd64.iso : all files names were truncated to 64 characters.

Or so I thought.
After mounting the ISO in a debian installation I have, all files with file names over 64 characters in length are fine.

So far I have not been able to find a windows utility that will correctly handle the long file names.
I have tried 7-zip, Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.1.0.exe, unetbootin-windows-549.exe, liveusb-creator-3.10.0-setup.exe, and WinCDEmu. All have failed, and are truncating file names to 64 characters.