Jed’s fridge door notes (a.k.a. “so i won’t forget”)

Open source rulez

http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm

http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz/daa2iso.zip (download)

No need to install crap like PowerISO who just adds to the proprietary software fodder that pollutes the net.

Same thing goes for Nero’s NRG files, WinRAR’s RAR archives, WinWurd’s DOC, etc…. and the list goes on. Listen up people, creating proprietary file formats that only your software can open is just as bad as creating a language only you can understand. Like, what’s the point? Money can only go so far…

There’s a tool called nrg2iso to convert .nrg files to .iso files. You can use that. Just emerge/apt-get/make the tool and you’re done.

nrg2iso cd-image.nrg cd-image.iso

OR

You can use the `dd` command. The difference between an NRG and ISO file is basically a 300kb header that Nero adds to a simple ISO file. So we can just trim this header off and you’ll have your ISO file.

dd bs=1k if=cd-image.nrg of=cd-image.iso skip=300

That’s it.