Image Files
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If you own some Image files, those files that can be used by software like k3b to burn CDs or DVDs, you may want to be able to just browse them, without or before to burn them. This can be quite time consuming to find its way trough all the informations on that matter, so here is this kind of Howto.
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[edit] What Software Should I Use
All depend on what you really want to do and which image format you want to deal with.
Some common image format are handled by:
| Image Type | Handler |
|---|---|
| ISO | kernel loop driver and mount |
| BIN/CUE | bchunk or bin2iso |
| NRG | nrg2iso |
| MDF/MDS | mdf2iso |
| IMG | ccd2iso |
| B5I | b5i2iso |
[edit] Mount an ISO file
You need the loop module to be loaded:
The following command will mount the file archive.iso at /media/image
[edit] Convert other image files to ISO
The other image formats need to be converted to ISO before mounting.
[edit] Convert BIN images to ISO
First emerge bchunk:[edit] Convert NRG images to ISO
[edit] Convert MDF images to ISO
You can get mdf2iso from here. If you try it, please complete this article with the steps to install it.
[edit] Convert IMG images to ISO
[edit] AcetoneIso
AcetoneIso claim to be able to do all that the above softwares can do. With NRG image of audio CDs, it doesn't give me a better result: the failure was total.
[edit] CDemu
Finally, CDemu let me do what I wanted to do with my NRG image files of audio CDs.
[edit] CDemu installation and configuration
CDemu run in 2 parts: a daemon and the user space program. Before to start the daemon, you may want to adjust its configuration file:
CDEMUD_DEVICES="4" ... CDEMUD_AUDIO_DRIVER="ALSA"
The first setting will let you choose the number of devices you want to be able to open at the same time, each open device will correspond to one image file. The second setting is the audio driver that cdemud will use.
You must also load the fuse and vhba modules before starting the daemon:
The loop device will be useful too:
In order to make this permanent:
modules="loop fuse vhba"
You must logout and login again for this to work.
Now, you can begin to use CDemu.
[edit] CDemu utilisation
Get some help:PARSER-NRG: NRG (Nero Burning Rom) images PARSER-B6T: BlindWrite 5/6 images PARSER-ISO: ISO images PARSER-C2D: C2D (CeQuadrat WinOnCD) images PARSER-CDI: CDI (DiscJuggler) images PARSER-TOC: Cdrdao TOC files PARSER-CIF: CIF (Adaptec Easy CD Creator) images PARSER-CCD: CCD (CloneCD) images PARSER-MDS: MDS (Media descriptor) images PARSER-XCDROAST: X-CD-Roast TOC files PARSER-CUE: CUE images PARSER-DAA: PowerISO direct access archivesShow the status of the devices:
Status des périphériques: DEV VIDÉ NOM DE FICHIER 0 0 N/A 1 0 N/A 2 0 N/A 3 0 N/AMount an image file:
Your desktop automounter must do the rest.
cdemu -b system status Status des périphériques: DEV VIDÉ NOM DE FICHIER 0 1 /mnt/usb3/Musique/Beethoven/CD 4.nrg 1 0 N/A 2 0 N/A 3 0 N/AUnmount the "disk":
It is also a script on the forum for easy image mounting with CDemu and Nautilus, but it look like to be broken at that time.
[edit] References
El Bloguenn: Mounting .iso .bin .nrg .cue .dmf and .img in Linux
