how to create a cue file

Hi,
I've downloaded a zip file for an old intel chipset, unzipping the file
creates a folder containing several files: setup.exe/iss/lid/ini, plus some
cabs files, dat and a layout.bin
I would like like to make a cd from these files, could the layout.bin serve
the case? how can I make a cue file?
Thanks

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xms wrote:

I've downloaded a zip file for an old intel chipset, unzipping the file
creates a folder containing several files: setup.exe/iss/lid/ini, plus some
cabs files, dat and a layout.bin
I would like like to make a cd from these files, could the layout.bin serve
the case? how can I make a cue file?
Thanks

The layout.bin is not an image file. Just burn the files as data, and
run setup. (Isn't there README?)

CDmage can generate .cue:

Open an image file in CDmage as "Raw Image" type. Track detection
options window will pop up and when click "Detect" button, CDmage will
prompt you where to save the .cue file that CDmage will generate.

http://cdmage.cjb.net

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:59:44 +0100, "xms" wrote:

Hi,
I've downloaded a zip file for an old intel chipset, unzipping the file
creates a folder containing several files: setup.exe/iss/lid/ini, plus some
cabs files, dat and a layout.bin
I would like like to make a cd from these files, could the layout.bin serve
the case? how can I make a cue file?
Thanks


That depends on the layout.bin. The .cue file is meant to just give
the burner hints about how to basically lay out the tracks on the Cd
if there's more than one or if there's an oddball sector size. If
it's a standard ISO type CD, that's not too much of a problem. You
can either use a CUE file from another CD that you know to be "normal"
and edit the bin filename to match yours (use a text editor). If it's
a non-standard disc, and actually needs a .cue file, you're going to
need to know how it was originally laid out first, as it's custom made
for that particular file.

That's assuming layout.bin is a CD image. The BIN extension has also
been used for data storage files, and for program component files.
Given what you've mentioned about it, I think that's actually the case
here. I think it's a proprietary data file involved in installing the
chipset drivers.
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MCheu

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 07:12:05 -0500, MCheu wrote:

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:59:44 +0100, "xms" wrote:

Hi,
I've downloaded a zip file for an old intel chipset, unzipping the file
creates a folder containing several files: setup.exe/iss/lid/ini, plus some
cabs files, dat and a layout.bin
I would like like to make a cd from these files, could the layout.bin serve
the case? how can I make a cue file?
Thanks

That's assuming layout.bin is a CD image. The BIN extension has also
been used for data storage files, and for program component files.
Given what you've mentioned about it, I think that's actually the case
here. I think it's a proprietary data file involved in installing the
chipset drivers.

I'll second that - BIN is a common extension used for any form of
binary data, and in this case, it is NOT at all likely to be anything
to do with a CD image.

Just burn the files as they are - you would rune the setup from the
directory you unpacked them to, so unless being read only on a CD or
unable to use the current directory as working space upsets things,
the same set of files should install from a CD.

I forget what, but I've known things that don't install from a copy on
CD, for those reasons - the other problem is that files which are
transferred from CD may keep the read-only attribute, which may cause
any later replacement of them to fail or be queried.

On the other hjand, most setups and installs perform further unpacking
to TEMP, possibly to get round the problems of being run from a CD, or
from a network directory that you do not have write permission on

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