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CD Image Conversion - LinuxQuestions.org Wiki
CD Image Conversion - LinuxQuestions.org Wiki: "CD Image Conversion

For one reason or another, you may have .nrg .bin .b5i .cdi .mdf .ccd .img .pdi files laying around that you would like to access under Linux. Here are some nifty utilities to convert those pesky 'Windows only' images into something Linux can understand (standard .iso format (http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/ISO_9660))... You can then burn it to disk or mount it via loopback device.

Don't expect error correction codes and the like to be preserved, just the data... Generally speaking, these types of things are pretty irrelevant on linux to begin with. If you legally backed up some software of yours and made a 1:1 image of it under Windows, more than likely, your resulting ISO from the programs below will not contain this copy protection data. For our purposes, we just want to be able to extract files from it or convert a non-copy-protected image to ISO format.

All of the resulting binaries below should be made executable (http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Chmod#Using_chmod) and then placed in your $PATH (http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/PATH)

The resulting ISO images can be mounted with mount -t iso9660 myimage.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop

mount-iso-image (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=11577) for the KDE Desktop (http://www.kde.org/) might also be of interest to you.

Also, CDemu (http://cdemu.sourceforge.net) might be something to check out. It can mount .bin/.cue images to a Virtual Drive, much like the Windows program Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php) can."


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