Is there any software like Alcohol 50% on Linux?
 

Hellow..

I want to use Virtual CD Images (like .img , .iso ... ... )

Is there any software like Alcohol on Linux???

you want to be able to burn iso/img? is that what you're asking?

if so k3b is what u want

This may be of help to you. It isnt a GUI front end like alcohol, but it allows you to mount iso images (assuming you are using kde).

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=11577

Hope that helps.

I am not sure what Alcohol does, but you can mount .img and .iso files that reside on your hard disc using the loopback device. You need this built in your kernel either statically or as a module.

Then it is as simple as:

Alcohol is really more for emulating CD protection on mounted ISOs - however, I don't see that as being too useful for Linux since the copy protection would be for a Win32 program :). As the above posts states, the mounting side of Alcohol can be done by using loopback.

Just out of interest, why "Alcohol 50%", isn't it "Alcohol 120%" :)?

bulliver when i try to mount a .bin with your above example (i left out the iso portion of the command as it is a bin not iso) i get an error.

how would you mount a .bin file?

Alcohol 50% (60%?) is the demo version :)

The iso9660 is a standard file sytem type of CDs, don't leave it out.

ahh kewl thanks. ill put that back in and see the differance.

now that is a smbmount that im tring to do this from... should i just copy the directory over to my debian box and try again?

ok that is after moving the file to my local HD on my debian box.

next step?

I was just about to ask this same quesiton. I just am beginning to be converted from WinXP and purchased Alcohol 50% a few weeks ago. (FYI 50% is just for mounting images, 120% has a burning ROM as well). Kinda miffed I wasted 30 bucks just before starting to use Linux :( Bad timing.

do a search for "bin2iso" on google. I use this to convert my old bin/cue files to an iso image, then mount them

have not tried that, but just did a bchunk to convert my bin/cue to iso. i can mount the cue, but not the bin file.... so im still a bit fubar.

I would say "Mount Image" from KDE-Look would be the best replacement ..

Kiso is an option as well....

Kiso website

Still early development though.
The mentioned Mount Iso Image script does a great job though. Easy to work with and very easy to setup.

ok i have figured out how to mount the .cue portion of the bin/cue combo (fyi this is created in windows via Nero burning rom software. it is the CD/DVD burning tool that competes with EZ CDcreator) the .cue portion is just the information head, but the .bin is the file with the data that needs to be accessed.

in windows the alcohol line and daemon tools line of programs both offer access to the .bin/.cue files along with .iso and .img without having to burn them out to CD with the appropriate tools.

i can successfully mount true .iso files and .img files, but still getting to the .bin portion even after bchunk convertion from .bin/.cue into .iso is not working.

next step without burning the .bin/.cue out to CD first to access the data via *nix?

i have seen several other programs but not much explanation on them.

would really like some help on this please. if there is not a way of doing this via *nix then please say so and ill figure something out in M$ to get it done.

install this:

http://www.neotokyo.org/illusion/dow...bin2iso.tar.gz

here's what it does:

after you're done making the iso, just use one of the gui tools, or mount by commandline:
i create a folder on my desktop called Disk1 or whatever, and mount the iso like this:

done..

to unmount,
a little bit of typing, but free and painless. After you've done it once, its easy.

-myk

great thanks. ill mess with that tomorrow after i get up. its after 2am local time so im off to bed.

ok showing my ub3r newbiness again:

do i need to chmod +x Makefile in that dir so it will run?

I've gotten to mount an ISO that I pulled off my Windows partition, mount -o loop ****.iso /mnt/cdrom3 worked (or something like that, it was last night I did it) but how do you make the ISO from within linux?

EDIT: From the command line I mean, I want to learn as much as I can without the GUI

mkisofs

i take it then there is no way to continue beyound a broken Makefile command?

This may be a bit hard to understand but the Makefile is run by tying "make" not running by the file it self.
All the "Makefile" is does it supply "instructions" to the make program that looks for the Makefile in the current dir.

So the Makefile is fine but to use it type "make".

Or take a look at this
http://cdemu.sourceforge.net/

mounts cue/bin images like isos.

ok did i not get that right? you are not being hard, and i am still a newbie, but that is how i thought it worked, but isnt there normally an INSTALL file or something that you make install?

so confused.

the process is typically:

that should get it installed for you.
Be sure that your are doingthe configure and make process as a regular user, not root. Then do "make install" as root.


-myk

ok im so lost here. either this program is screwed up (i am not finding anything that would be normal for *nix or M$ in this !@#$!@#$)



no such animal. the make Makefile does nothing, the ./confige does not exsist what is wrong with this picture here? also i had no way of moving the original directory from /home/root into /home/user i tried -r and -R neither worked. when moving a directory dont you need to do so recursive?

well i have a temporary work around, but it still does not solve the real problem.

i can use Daemon tools on my winXP box, then i can smbmount //IP/share /mount/point and open the file that way with kaffein, but that still does not help for me to get the .bin and .cue files working native in *nix.

to mount cue and bin files use CDEmu
cdemu.sf.net

Sorry for posting this twice.

It looks like you are trying to mount a VCD? If so, you can just play the .bin file in VideoLAN client...

videolan.org

or in mplayer