Comments on: Howto open .daa files (Direct-Access-Archive) under Linux / UNIX

By: kasia

kasia — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:10:34 +0000

It is not illegal to use a program that is not OS. All this copyright paranoia is warping reality.

By: macsim

macsim — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:14:55 +0000

@Vivek Gite,

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Keep going
max

By: z666zz666z

z666zz666z — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:30:59 +0000

There is a much better option than converting… direct use / mount .daa files…

For Linux: use CDemu it can mount .daa (with compression and encryption also) directly as a VirtualCD unit (Note: cdemud must be running as daemon, better if –bus-type=system)

For Windows: use MagicDisc, or any other Freeware VirtualCD/DVD

Why you all people tell others only conversion utilities? While there exist direct mount utilities.

In my personal case i have more than one thousand CDs ripped to .daa on an external USB disc… when i need one i mount the file as a virtual cd drive (no matter if i use Linux or Windows) and use it as if i had converted and burned to a CD-R… also is valid for DVDs.

By: trebortsorf

trebortsorf — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:53:44 +0000

http://freshmeat.net/projects/daa2iso/

this will do the job. poweriso is a i386 precompiled binary so is useless for anyone using linux on ppc, mips etc or *bsd solaris etc etc…. i.e. should be listed as linux/i386 and not just linux.

This runs successfully on my ppc debian box.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:46:34 +0000

This does work on FreeBSD 7. You need to “bandelf -t linux poweriso” and have linux compatibility enabled.

By: mahboop

mahboop — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:23:05 +0000

dear Jayne
download the latest version of PowerISO
from the website
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good luck

By: Jayne

Jayne — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:21:30 +0000

I followed your instructions. Unfortunately, after accessing the file, the system comes back with a message:

“File version mismatch. To open this file, please visit our website to get the latest version.”

Can you advise on what to do?
Thanks.
Jayne

By: mahboop

mahboop — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:12:47 +0000

thanks
it works for me
using PowerISO
i convert my file from .daa to .iso
then i extract it
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thank you very much

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:31:49 +0000

Hi, I have a problem once with a zip file. I tried to open it with fileroller and ark, both should work to open that file but they wouldn’t. I installed wine and I ran winrar succesfully to open the file. You could do the same but with IsoBuster or PowerISO.

By: PICCORO

PICCORO — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:33:20 +0000

there a gnu new daa2iso converter tool, and teh debian package is here:

http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com/2008/04/iso-linux-debian-venenux-tools.html

the man pages are too, just command “man daa2iso” for usage convertion from .daa file image to .iso image!

cdemu kernel user space can also mount directly many image file types, wihtout converting it!

By: matt

matt — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:22:51 +0000

Hi, to actually get at .daa files using poweriso run

./poweriso convert file.daa -o file.iso -ot iso

Best
m

By: Isaac T. Madsen

Isaac T. Madsen — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:39:37 +0000

Try this tutorial: DAA2ISO freeware utility.

By: Razaul Hassan (New Delhi)

Razaul Hassan (New Delhi) — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:54:52 +0000

Thanks for the information.I used MagicISO it did’t work.I hope PowerISO will do the work.

Regards

Razaul

By: luca

luca — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:03:09 +0000

to sebestien: in fact AcetoneISO uses poweriso to convert and there is nothing to be shamed of it since it’s proprietary. did you see the new AcetoneISO2? it’s not a simple program anymore, it is in qt4 and handles ISO BIN MDF NRG IMG and mounts them in automatic without needing destination , shows them on display and much more.

saying “AcetoneISO is nothing” is just a free offense to their work. and you know what? the new version doesn’t inlude poweriso but it will download as an external program only when needed. so it is not illegal.
c ya

By: Nano

Nano — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:31:46 +0000

THere is an error on the converting procudere. It should be:
/poweriso convert /mnt/iso/obsd39/cd39.iso -o /tmp/cd39.iso -ot iso

By: sebastien

sebastien — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:55:07 +0000

skOre: Actually, AcetoneISO is using PowerISO (and several other existing converters). Without these converters, AcetoneISO is nothing; without PowerISO, AcetoneISO can’t access DAA files at all.

AcetoneISO may even be illegal, violating PowerISO’s license and GPL, since it’s distributed under GPL and PowerISO is a copyrighted close-source program.

By: skOre

skOre — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:27:04 +0000

Thats BS – You just need http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=44805 – Acetoneiso

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:11:01 +0000

sebastien,

Thanks for the heads up :)

By: sebastien

sebastien — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:53:10 +0000

“Please have some patient while your comments go through all these anti-spam technologies.”

Er, I’m not a doctor, you probably mean “Please have some patience”? ;)

By: sebastien

sebastien — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:48:29 +0000

Works perfectly on linux 2.6.20. Thanks!