howto burn .mds and .mdf iso files?

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Dhurntan · Post by **Dhurntan** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 7:19 am

Hello,

I have an iso file .mds/.mdf but i dunno how to burn it... As I heard, this iso comes from Alcohol 120% (M$ Windows)... Does linux have a burning tool which support .mds/.mdf ?

Dhurntan

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:54 am

Did you ever find a way to burn them/it? i have the same problem now. i'm starting to hate this format.

infirit · Post by **infirit** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:10 pm

I could not find any documentation on how to burn these images under linux.
Maybe you can use wine to install/run alcohol and convert it to a more open image format

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:19 pm

oh well, thanks. i'll wait until my dad or sisters PC is back online and install it on their computer (windowsME/2k and windowsME)

i've decided i dont like Alcohol

mellon101 · Post by **mellon101** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:24 am

I ran into one of these files today, and figured I was screwed.
Just for kicks I started up K3B and tried to burn the MDF file as an ISO image AND IT WORKED!

The burn dialogue came up and identified it as an ISO9660 image ....and it burned no problem.

I am using K3B 0.11.1 from portage (~x86)

All these god forsaken image formats are enough to drive a man crazy.

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:30 am

hmmm, xcdroast didn't like it and mouting it as iso9660 through loopback didn't either.

i'll emerge k3b and try it
hopefully it's not dependant on much.

tracyde · Post by **tracyde** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:59 am

I don't know if you are still having the same problems but a solution is in another thread. I will summarize it.

first create a cue file using bin2iso

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# bin2iso myfile.cue -c myfile.mdf

then create the iso file from the cue using bin2iso

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# bin2iso myfile.cue

This will create an iso file that you can burn using whatever you want. An mdf file is very very similar to a bin file that is why this works.

edit: cleaned up post bb tags

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:36 am

nice

shame i deleted them ages ago

benzwt · Post by **benzwt** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:26 am

how do handle the md0, md1, md2 ... ?

SnEptUne · Post by **SnEptUne** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:17 am

tracyde wrote:I don't know if you are still having the same problems but a solution is in another thread. I will summarize it.

first create a cue file using bin2iso
Code: Select all
# bin2iso myfile.cue -c myfile.mdf
then create the iso file from the cue using bin2iso
Code: Select all
# bin2iso myfile.cue
This will create an iso file that you can burn using whatever you want. An mdf file is very very similar to a bin file that is why this works.

edit: cleaned up post bb tags

bin2iso doesn't works for my mds and mdf files. Any other solution?

Freespirit · Post by **Freespirit** » Wed May 04, 2005 12:27 pm

bin2iso doesn't works for my mds and mdf files. Any other solution?

Does your image names contain any spaces? if so bin2iso will not work!
Try renaming you mdf file to something that does not contain any spaces and start over!

Freespirit

SnEptUne · Post by **SnEptUne** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:18 pm

The problem isn't that it can't convert the mdf/mds file to iso, the problem is that the iso generated is corrupted. I cannot mount the iso file, and if I burn the iso files, I cannot read the cd. I suspect there are important data in the subchannel file, which are not converted with bin2iso.

SilverXXX · Post by **SilverXXX** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:20 pm

maybe mdf2iso ???? which is also in portage

MadEgg · Post by **MadEgg** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:01 pm

I just tried mdf2iso on a DVD image but it only says the file is too large...

maiku · Post by **maiku** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:26 pm

SnEptUne wrote:
tracyde wrote:I don't know if you are still having the same problems but a solution is in another thread. I will summarize it.

first create a cue file using bin2iso
Code: Select all
# bin2iso myfile.cue -c myfile.mdf
then create the iso file from the cue using bin2iso
Code: Select all
# bin2iso myfile.cue
This will create an iso file that you can burn using whatever you want. An mdf file is very very similar to a bin file that is why this works.

edit: cleaned up post bb tags
bin2iso doesn't works for my mds and mdf files. Any other solution?

Strange, this solution worked no problem for me.

Xaosratt · Post by **Xaosratt** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:05 pm

tracyde wrote:I don't know if you are still having the same problems but a solution is in another thread. I will summarize it.

first create a cue file using bin2iso
Code: Select all
# bin2iso myfile.cue -c myfile.mdf
then create the iso file from the cue using bin2iso
Code: Select all
# bin2iso myfile.cue
This will create an iso file that you can burn using whatever you want. An mdf file is very very similar to a bin file that is why this works.

edit: cleaned up post bb tags

This also worked great for me without the last step. Just make the .cue file and then burn that in K3b. Converting the .mdf you will lose the extra copy protection data.