[wellylug] Install a Linux .bin archive

[David Antliff]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Michael Dittmer wrote:
> I have a program that is packaged as a .bin file.

There are two types of .bin files I've come across in Linux:

1. executable. Just chmod +x binfile then ./binfile. If you look at the
file in emacs or something it's usually a bootstrapping script with
appended binary executable and data, but might be an elf32 file too - try
'file binfile' and see what it says.

2. raw CD image. These are like ISOs only they use the raw block size
(2232 or something?) rather than 2048 bytes per block. They usually come
with a .cue file but you can do without it for single-track images. Use
bchunker to turn it into an ISO.

These two filetypes are completely different. Chances are, you've got file
type 1.

-- 
David.