Changing Other CD Images to Standard ISO Image with IAT
I was creating a photo slideshow VCD in my windows XP using Nero. My Writer drive was not working fine, so i decided to creat the cd image (.nrg) and write it using my Lap installed with Hardy(Ubuntu 8.04) using K3B. K3B didnt accept the nrg file… So going through how to convert the nrg to ISO, I came accross IAT.
IAT is nothing but ISo9660 Analyser Tool. In windows we use many CD Image manipulation softwares
Eg. Alcohol(.mdf), Clone CD(.cdi), Nero (.nrg) and many more. But the standart Image format accepted my all platforms are ISO(.iso). iat (Iso9660 Analyzer Tool) is a tool for detecting the structure of many types of CD-ROM image file formats, such as BIN, MDF, PDI, CDI, NRG, and B5I, and converting them into ISO-9660. Even many Operating System CDs are downloaded in Internet in the same file format. AS it is widely accepted standard. You can install IAT like
~$sudo apt-get install iat
provided your repositories are configured well. Also for the developers the source files can be downloaded in
Usage is like
~$iat input_file.nrg output_file.iso
