Hi guys,
somethings fantastic, you just make iso of a cdrom, clone-iso format with k3b; then you've not way to do anything with this image except burning. The mounting iso9660 will not work, any iso reading either... even cdrecord will not work.

Is there any solution except burning with it ? (I actually broke my cd-burner)

Thanks

I think that is probably the point of the "Normal/Clone" Copy Mode dialog. I am not sure what differences there are, but presumably doing a Normal copy would give you a standard image file.

Though I suppose at this point, you are looking to convert the image?

If you feed a k3b clone image back into the "burn image" function, you'll find that the format is a "cdrecord clone image", and that it will only work in conjunction with its associated .toc file. I don't know much about it beyond this point. Is there a way for cdrecord/wodim to "burn" the image to a standard iso format, sending the output it to another file? Or perhaps there's an image converter that will do the same?

If you use the "normal" copy mode in k3b, on the other hand, you get a nice mountable .iso image. You'll also get a mountable image if you use the dd command ("dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/output-image.iso").

I looked around a bit, and there's a small application called iat, which can convert between different image formats. I just tested it on a k3b-generated clone image, and it created a perfect, loopback-mountable .iso image. Check it out.

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/iat/
I just compiled the iat code source, installed, and would like to convert

what you did enter in the command prompt line :
just that?

Yes, that's pretty much it. 'iat k3bimage.img outputimage.iso', or something like that. It's a pretty simple program all in all. It may need a clear .iso extension on the output file, but I'm not really sure (I don't think the input name matters at all, since it seems to autodetect it). On the other hand, I found that I didn't even need to have the .toc file for it to work, so that's a plus.