Re: ISO image
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:03:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:13, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:41:50PM -0500, alex wrote:
> > > A real beginners question. What is an ISO image?
> >
> > An ISO image is a file containing an ISO-9660 filesystem. It is,
> > essentially, a bit-for-bit copy of a CD ROM. You can use this kind of
> > file to burn a CD, it's been around longer, is the international
> > standard for such images, and is far easier than screwing around with
> > bin/cue stuff (when I run into this, I just use bchunk to fix people's
> > broken, propriety bin/cue images into something universally usable).
>
> What are bin and cue images? In this context, I though that ".bin"
> was just another way of naming files, since ".iso" is only a convention,
> not a mandate.
bin/cue was originally used by some old DOS burning program. The bin
file is the actual data to be burned and the cue file is an instruction
sheet on how to burn it. The strength of bin/cue is that it can contain
more than just a single ISO data track - mixtures of ISO data, CD audio,
(S)VCD video, or just about anything else. And, in spite of the above
comments, bin/cue files are almost universally usable, recent versions
of cdrdao will burn them just fine.
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Michael Heironimus
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