[TriLUG] making cd images with OS X/Darwin

Jeffery Painter painter at kiasoft.com
Mon May 19 00:25:35 EDT 2003


I would use mkisofs to create the iso image... I don't know if this 
differs from a straight up dd but seems to me to be a safe bet.

then you can take the iso and burn with any burn program

jeff


On Mon, 19 May 2003, Greg Brown wrote:

> Hey all.  I was trying to copy a CD with Mac OS X (from the command 
> line, so I think it's related) ;).
> 
> Anyway, the command I used to create the iso image was:
> 
> dd if=/dev/disk1 of=/Users/gwbrown/cd.iso
> 
> The iso image created well enough, but then I could NOT figure out how 
> to take that image and burn it back to a CD (yes, I have a CD-RW drive 
> in my iBook).  I tried the man pages and fumbled around via the GUI but 
> could not find a way to burn the ISO back to CD.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Greg
> 
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