Posts Tagged ‘ISO’
April 10th, 2009 | 
Author: bchunk converts a CD/DVD image in a “.bin / .cue” format (sometimes “.raw / .cue”) to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks. The bin/cue format is used by some non-Unix cd-writing software (i.e. old Nero Burning Rom version) , but is not supported on most other cd-writing programs.
image.bin is the raw cd image file. image.cue is the track index file containing track types and offsets. basename is used for the beginning part of the created track files.
The produced .iso track contains an ISO file system, which can be mounted through a loop device on Linux/Unix systems, or written on a CD-R using cdrecord or your preferred burning software (I love Brasero). The .cdr tracks are in the native CD audio format. They can be either written on a CD-R using cdrecord -audio, or converted to WAV (or any other sound format for that matter) using sox.
To install BCHUNK on Ubuntu use :
sudo apt-get install bchunk
To convert .cue and .bin files, navigate to the folder and run this command (replacing filenames with your own):
bchunk file.bin file.cue outputfile.iso
After the file is converted into ISO you can mount it using:
sudo mount -o loop outputfile.iso /whatever/you/want
Navigate to /whatever/you/want and you should see the content. You can then copy it anywhere, mount it in a Virtual Machine or burn it with a burning software.
Obviously, this works for both CD and DVD images, but if you burn it you mut choose the appropriate media.
Hope this help
Bye
Riccardo
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This could be very useful for VirtualMachine (on which you can mount an ISO in the virtual CD-Rom Drive) or for not have to carry all your phisical CD/DVD.
Use the following command to create ISO image of CD or DVD
Note: /dev/hdc is my cdrom device
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/tmp/example.iso bs=32
Hope this help
Bye
Riccardo
This could be very useful if you have your data on a DVD and you don’t have a DVD Player on your machine or you are using a remote connection or even if you don’t have phisical access to the machine.
The following show an example of mounting a DVD as a file.
# mkdir /iso
# mount -o loop -t iso9660 /YourApp-DVD.iso /iso
Or to mount automatically at boot, add the following to “/etc/fstab”
/YourApp-DVD.iso /iso iso9660 ro,loop 0 0
Hope this help
Bye
Riccardo
