Today I was installing something on Windows using Sun VirtualBox but the package was in the form of .cue and .bin files. I was not aware of these two format and didn't know how to mount them in Virtual Machine. I had two ways, first is to write a CD and second is to somehow convert the .cue and .bin files into .iso.
Well I am lazy person so I decided why take so much pain in converting them into .iso, I though of writing the .cue/.bin files on CD and them mount the CD on VirtualBox. I don't have blank CD and was getting ready to buy some from the nearby market. Suddenly I realized that it is election day today in Delhi and all the shops must be closed. So now I had only one option left, to convert the .cue and .bin files into .iso.
I searched the google and finally found the way :) here it is
1. There is a utility called bchunk that can do the conversion. So the first job is to install it.
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yum install bchunk
2. Once it is installed we have to do the conversion. Suppose XXX.cue and XXX.bin are the two input files that we want to convert to XXX.iso output file.
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bchunk XXX.bin XXX.cue XXX.iso
3. Now your iso XXX.iso is ready :) have fun
