I’ll cut the introduction short. If you have a CD image file in .uif format (MagicISO proprietary Universal Image Format) and are under Linux, you probably by now are painfully aware of your problem and are interested on just the solution without further ceremonies.

OK, so let me now tell you a way how to access those pesky .uif files under Linux.

What you need first is

1. working Wine installation
2. a copy of the MagicISO installer

For Wine, if you’re under Debian, apt-get install wine should do the trick. Remember to configure it using winesetup, see Wine documentation for details.

For MagicISO, just find the Setup_MagicISO.exe from their page. I used 5.4 (build 256). Place the .exe under your Wine C:-drive (e.g. ~/.wine/drive_c).

Install MagicISO using Wine, something like wine Setup_MagicISO.exe in the command line. After the setup is done, you will have MagicISO installed to C:\Program Files\MagicISO.

Copy your image.uif image file to your wine C:-drive, and then, while in ~/.wine/drive_c, use the following command: wine Program\ Files/MagicISO/miso image.iso -conv iso image.uif i.e. use the miso.exe to convert.

Note: It will take a while to convert.

I was unable to do the conversion from the MagicISO.exe UI, it just ate a lot of memory and almost jammed my machine. But the command line tool miso.exe worked fine when used like above.

After this, you’ll have a proper ISO file to do what you want.