Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 22:52:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: How Can ThisBe <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: How can I mount a cdrom .bin file? Message-ID: <20030514224353.D27447@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <20030515013732.GL4390@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <BAY7-F45nEHVKd7IRaP0001fd33@hotmail.com> <20030515013732.GL4390@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Thu, 15 May 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 May 2003 at 21:17:22 +0000, How Can ThisBe wrote: > > Hello. I have a number of .bin CDROM images and I was wondering how I > > can mount them? I know how to mount .iso CDROM images but .bin is new > > to me :] > > File name extensions are meaningless in UNIX. You can call them > anything you want. As somebody else observed, it might be a > proprietary format, in which case you're out of luck. But don't > assume anything based on the name. file(1) is your friend some of the > time, but it doesn't recognize ISO images. > > Greg > -- I was helping somebody in my office with that kind of Windows XP critters. .bin & .cue files can be read by daemontools [www.daemontools.org] for windows. These guys took BSD cd9660 mounting programs and adapt them for windows. I don't remember, but I believe they have legal problems for this. You can "mount" that image in a virtual CD and then, with a burner program you can build the iso image, just as "mdconfig -a -t vnode..." does. Now, in FreeBSD, /usr/ports/sysutils/bchunk that help you to build the iso image: bchunk is a Unix/C rewrite of the fine BinChunker software for some non-Unix systems. ===== pkg-descr========= binchunker converts a CD 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, but is not supported on most other cd-writing programs. The .iso track contains an ISO file system, which can be mounted through a vn device on FreeBSD systems, or written on a CD-R using cdrecord. The .cdr tracks are in the native CD audio format. (pcm) 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. ======================== hope it helps. Eduardo. -- 2b | ~2b == ? Hamlet.
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