November 04, 2003

making ISOs on Panther

what is an ISO? well, if you have a CD and you think you might want to make a copy of it someday (and you have tons of hard disk space), you can copy that CD to disk for future burns. you can also copy this ISO to a PC and burn it on your windows/linux/bsd machine :)
using the ISO format retains things like mac/pc interoperability, bootable CDs, etc.

well, i wasn't sure how to do this on Panther. I used Carbon Copy Cleaner before, but i thought there should be a way built-in. and there is.

this article shows how. here it is:
hdiutil makehybrid -o ISONAME /Volumes/CDNAME
  • ISONAME is the name of the resulting ".iso" file (the .iso extension will be added by the program)
  • CDNAME is the name of the mounted CD.

Posted by Steve on November 4, 2003 03:24 PM