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Mounting .bin / .cue files on Linux

August 2, 2012 Linux

Mounting .iso image files is easy under Linux, but unfortunately mounting .bin and .cue files requires a bit more work.
First of all, you wont be able to directly mount .bin or .cue files. You will have to convert them to an .iso file first.
Convert .bin and .cue files to an .iso image
You can then mount the resulting .iso file.
Mount CD / DVD .iso image files on Linux
While it would be nice to be able to directly mount .bin and .cue files, this only adds one step, and doesn’t take long to do at all.

Mount CD / DVD .iso image files on Linux

August 2, 2012 Linux

Instead of burning .iso images to CD’s or DVD’s all the time, under Linux you can mount the .iso files, and easily access the data within the image. This obviously wont help if you want to burn a bootable cd, but its very handy if you quickly need to access some files within the image, without burning a CD/DVD.
Mounting a .iso image file:

# mount /path/to/cdimage.iso /mnt/cdmount -o loop,ro

Prefix the above command with “sudo” if you are not using an account with root privileges, or use “su” to gain root access. This will depend on the Linux distribution used.
Make sure the mount point (“/mnt/cdmount” in the example above) exists before trying to mount the image file.
This will mount the CD/DVD image “/path/to/cdimage.iso” to the folder “/mnt/cdmount”, and mounts it using the loop back option, as well as being read only.
When you are finished using the image, you need to unmount it.
Unmounting the image file:

# umount /mnt/cdmount

Again, this must be run with root privileges.
Simply use the mount point you want to unmount as the only parameter to umount.
If you have forgotten where you mounted it to, you can simply run “mount” to get a listing of all current mounted filesystems.

Convert .bin and .cue files to an .iso image

August 2, 2012 Linux

To convert a .bin and .cue file combination into a iso image file in Linux, you need a handy tool called Binchunker. Most tools on Linux require a ISO image (mounting, extracting, etc), so .bin and .cue files will need to be converted first.
Install Binchunker:

$ sudo apt-get install bchunk

Convert the .bin and .cue combo to a .iso image:

$ bchunk cdimage.bin cdimage.cue output

This will create an iso file with the naming format of outputXX.iso, where XX is a number based on the track that is being exported. Eg. output01.iso for the first track.
Example:

$ bchunk cdimage.bin cdimage.cue output
binchunker for Unix, version 1.2.0 by Heikki Hannikainen 
        Created with the kind help of Bob Marietta ,
        partly based on his Pascal (Delphi) implementation.
        Support for MODE2/2352 ISO tracks thanks to input from
        Godmar Back , Colas Nahaboo 
        and Matthew Green .
        Released under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later (at your option).
Reading the CUE file:
Track  1: MODE1/2352    01 00:00:00
Writing tracks:
 1: output01.iso  550/550  MB  [********************] 100 %
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