04-01-2025, 08:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-01-2025, 08:39 PM by Kevin Kofler.)
FYI, there is one unpaid host that will allow you to upload such huge image files in one piece without complaining: SourceForge.
I found that out because I was (a few years ago) unsure how to distribute the ISO images for my Fedora Remix named Kannolo (desktop only, no mobile version planned at this time). Well, it turned out (I found it out by looking at where other similar projects were hosting their ISOs) that SourceForge is the place.
Note that this is not paid advertisement. I do not get any money, nor any other advantages, from SourceForge for recommending them. (And neither am I a paying customer of SourceForge – as I said, the service is free as in beer.) I just want to point you to it because having to split a single image into multi-volume ZIP files is not ideal (it means extra work both for you and your users), and there is at least one alternative.
Sure, SourceForge is full of ads and other annoyances (though at least there should not be any malware there anymore under the current owners), but it does not cost you a dime, they only require that your project is FOSS and that you upload the corresponding source code along with the binaries. And they allow huge files. According to https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/document...imitations, the current per-file limit is 10 GB (as long as you upload using rsync, SCP, or SFTP – HTTP uploads are possible, but limited to 500 MB). (It was 7 GB when I last checked just a few months ago, they have increased it to 10 GB recently.)
E.g., the last Kannolo release so far (I call it "last so far" rather than "latest" because I am not currently doing any Kannolo releases and do not know whether I ever will again) includes a 1.3 GB ISO and a 3.5 GB ZIP of SRPMs. And I have several files of such sizes there.
I found that out because I was (a few years ago) unsure how to distribute the ISO images for my Fedora Remix named Kannolo (desktop only, no mobile version planned at this time). Well, it turned out (I found it out by looking at where other similar projects were hosting their ISOs) that SourceForge is the place.
Note that this is not paid advertisement. I do not get any money, nor any other advantages, from SourceForge for recommending them. (And neither am I a paying customer of SourceForge – as I said, the service is free as in beer.) I just want to point you to it because having to split a single image into multi-volume ZIP files is not ideal (it means extra work both for you and your users), and there is at least one alternative.
Sure, SourceForge is full of ads and other annoyances (though at least there should not be any malware there anymore under the current owners), but it does not cost you a dime, they only require that your project is FOSS and that you upload the corresponding source code along with the binaries. And they allow huge files. According to https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/document...imitations, the current per-file limit is 10 GB (as long as you upload using rsync, SCP, or SFTP – HTTP uploads are possible, but limited to 500 MB). (It was 7 GB when I last checked just a few months ago, they have increased it to 10 GB recently.)
E.g., the last Kannolo release so far (I call it "last so far" rather than "latest" because I am not currently doing any Kannolo releases and do not know whether I ever will again) includes a 1.3 GB ISO and a 3.5 GB ZIP of SRPMs. And I have several files of such sizes there.