This tutorial will guide you on how to extract a .daa(Direct Access Archive) file in Linux. By default most of the Linux distribution does not have any softwares that can support the extraction of daa file. You got to download PowerISO , the developer of the DAA archive. Ironically like in Windows, there is no GUI for PowerISO in Linux, we got to use the command prompt (we got it TERMINAL in linux icon biggrin How to Extract DAA files in Linux )
Step 1: Download PowerISO from here,
Step 2: Incase your Linux distro does not Yast Installers, then open Terminal and type the below commands
wget
http://www.poweriso.com/poweriso-1.3.tar.gz tar -zxvf poweriso-1.3.tar.gz
Step 3: Now copy the extracted file “poweriso” to the location where your .DAA file is located.
Step 4: Use the command “poweriso extract <name.daa>”
Step 5: This will extract the files in .DAA archive to the same folder.
Note: The above steps are the simplest steps to extract a .DAA file, incase you need more option, kindly look into the Usage.
poweriso How to Extract DAA files in Linux
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Usage:
poweriso <command> [parameters] [-switches]
<Commands>
list <image file> <directory> List files and directories in image file.
Example: List all files and directories in root direcory of /home/sam/test.iso .
Command: poweriso list /home/sam/test.iso / -r
extract <image file> <dir/file name> Extract files/directories from image file.
Example: Extract all files and directories in root direcory of /home/sam/test.iso
to /home/sam/test recursively.
Command: poweriso extract /home/sam/test.iso / -od /home/sam/test
convert <image file> Convert image file to other format.
Example: Convert /home/sam/test.daa to standard iso file
Command: poweriso convert /home/sam/test.daa -o /home/sam/test.iso -ot iso
<Switches>
-r List or extract recursively.
-o Specify output image file name.
-od Specify output folder.
-ot <iso|daa|bin> Specify output image file type. If not specified,
the image type will be determined by file name suffix.
-volsize <n> Split output image file to multiple volumes, and set volume
size to <n>. Example: -volsize 100M
-setpassword <password> Set password for output image file.
Example: -setpassword 12345678
