[Geoserver-users] HUGE TIFF preview

Hi
I'm absolutely new to this field.

I have a huge TIFF (500M, JPEG compression, tiled) file and I want to
preview it in GeoServer. Coordinate binding etc. are not important at this
point - I just want to be sure that GeoServer supports such kind of files.

I have followed this tutorial:
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/User+Tutorial+Coverage which worked
fine with the provided sample.tiff file. My TIFF is not GeoTIFF so I have
tried to use "A raster file accompanied by a spatial data file". This is
what I placed in .tfw file:

1.0000000000
0.0000000000
0.0000000000
1.0000000000
0.0000000000
0.0000000000

But when I run the demo I see an empty window, it seems it does not even try
to load anything. What an I doing wrong? Or what is the simplest way to
preview the file? Please help.

Best regards
DD

Tags of my TIFF (just in case):

ImageWidth (1 Short): 50176
ImageLength (1 Long): 103424
BitsPerSample (3 Short): 8, 8, 8
Compression (1 Short): JPEG Technote #2
Photometric (1 Short): YCbCr
Orientation (1 Short): TopLeft
SamplesPerPixel (1 Short): 3
XResolution (1 Rational): 0,205358982086182
YResolution (1 Rational): 0,204395607113838
PlanarConfig (1 Short): Contig
XPosition (1 Rational): 0
YPosition (1 Rational): 0
TileWidth (1 Short): 512
TileLength (1 Short): 512
TileOffsets (19796 Long): 4143, 167540, 4143, 4143, 4143, 4143, 4143,...
TileByteCounts (19796 Long): 4135, 4135, 4135, 4135, 4135, 4135, 4135,...
JpegTables (574 Undefined):
YCbCrSubsampling (2 Short): 2, 2
ReferenceBlackWhite (6 Rational):

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