Burning .bin/.cue files?

[Trotter]

I have before me a small stack of shiny silver coasters, the results of failed attempts at burning .bin/.cue files to make a bootable CD.

Somebody (or somebodies) clue me in, huh? What do I need to do? Give me some concrete advice here, as I am tired of wasting this spindle of CD-Rs.

 

[U-Toast]

use nero or a burning progam, choose burn image or w/e, then select the .cue file. then burn

 

[Osiris]

Use winiso www.winiso.com and convert the to .iso then burn them to a cd

 

[Trotter]

Been there, done that. Didn't work.

I end up with a CD that boots into DOS.

The .bin file is the big one, though (672MB). The .cue file is only 332 bytes.

 

[U-Toast]

uhh, wat kinda cd is it? windows installer?
if so, u can simply dl the bootable floppys. its a set of 6.
www.bootdisk.com

 

[Trotter]

Forget floppies. I might have two in the house, if that.

There has to be a catch to this. I'm just missing it.

I downloaded bin2iso and converted it to an .iso file, but when I tried to boot it, the computer said that it was an unrecognizable file format.

 

[horndude]

if youve got cdrtools with dao in linux, code:
cdrdao write --device ATAPI:0,0,0 --speed XX --driver mmc /cue_file_name/ ( bin file in same directory)

if not, under windows you need to write it DAO mode(disk at once)

 

[Trotter]

OK, tell me if this should work.

I am downloading WinISO to convert the .bin file to .iso. Do I need to convert the .cue file, or not?

When I get it converted, do I use Nero to burn it as an image? And use DAO?

 

[horndude]

if you change it to an iso it should burn as an image in nero, thats what an iso is, its a iso9660 filesystem image ready to be burned exactly as is

if its an iso you can get rid of the cue file

DAO mode for bin files(usually vcd or svcd)
TAO mode for iso's/data cd's

 

[horndude]

just by chance,when you burnded that iso, did you do it as an el torito? If so, dont,try it as a plain image or iso file